how to modify paragraph widths

Question

I am trying to widen the dashed frame in which my text appears in the image below?  How do I do this?

Barb Binder · Accepted Answer

Well, I thought you were pointing to the bullet, obviously!

I see that you have a custom position for your header, so to not disturb that:

View > Master Pages
Control + click on the template frame (the big empty one in the middle of the page)
Format > Customize Layout > Customize Text Frame > Dimensions. Modify the Width, Height, Top and Left Offsets, and click Apply. Repeat for the facing page, if double sided.
View > Body Pages and the text will reflow.

Now this is much easier, more intuitive and less math if you use Format > Page Layout > Column Layout and change the margins. But when you have a custom size and/or placement of the running heads (which you do), it moves them back to the default position.

Practice on a copy of the file!

Barb Binder · Answer

Place your cursor in one of the two paragraphs.
Format > Paragraphs > Designer > Basic
Update the 1st line indent value.
Update All.

I can see from the ruler that you also have a left indent set. You may want to adjust that value as well, depending on the look you are after. Bullets normally have a left indent that matches the tab stop, to produce a hanging indent.

But you would need to add a tab character between the bullet and the first character of the text. This can easily be done in Format > Paragraphs > Designer > Numbering, again followed by update all. If this produces duplicate bullets, you can remove them manually or via Find/Change.

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