Create hanging indent in Excel?

kznmrexcel

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  1. 2016
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Hi, everyone,
I have a long list of inventory with one column that contains lengthy titles/descriptions. It would be much easier to see the beginning of each line as a hanging indent so that the first word of each of the titles stands out, but I'm not seeing a way to do this. A screenshot as example is shown below. The inventory sheet has 147 line items, so manually indenting each line would be impractical. Is there a way to create a hanging indent that I could apply to all of column C? Please advise.
Thanks in advance,
Karen

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Just one more option that might make the hanging part a bit more uniform, It is a sort of cross between my previous suggestions and Joe's.
Insert one new column to the left of column C, format it as Wingdings and use this formula in C2 & copied down.
=IF(D2="","","è")

If you wanted, you could again fiddle with borders and gridlines.
Column C aligned top & right, Column D aligned top.

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