Keystroke for creating a paragraph indent?

I remember being able to do a simple keystroke to get a paragraph indent - for quickly making lists and indented lists.
Can't remember it today, when I need it. Can't seem to find it easily in the manual.
All ears,
Ben

Hi Peter,
I'm in Pages 09. If I do a command (and), I'm assuming you mean + for 'and'. Nothing much seems to happen. No indent.
I know I can create indents in the Inspector, but it's too slow, and I'm taking notes as someone is talking ... need to be super fast.

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Leigh Hanlon wrote:
James,
Thanks for the suggestion to use a stylus. I just tried that and you're right that it *sometimes* works, maybe about 25 percent of the time in the past few minutes I've been experimenting with the technique. My problem is that I need to indent precisely for documents that will be saved as Word .docx files. I can't believe that Pages for iPad apparently relegates this important feature solely by sliding and not allowing us to open a window and set the indents numerically.
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Hi,
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Nice of you to be doing this for your Mother's Thesis.
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Apple's marketing slogan:
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I also could have just cropped the page down to 6.5 x 11, and then centered it when I printed it.
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Hi,
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Can I use a software of Adobe for creating CD covers having installed Adobe CS5 on my MacBook Pro?
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For large amounts of text Photoshop is not the best choice.
But you can certainly create Type Layers – select the Type Tool (T) and create Point Text by clicking onto the Canvas or Paragraph Text by click-dragging on the Canvas.
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