Paragraph indenting issue

I have a text frame where I would like to indent every line after the first - I am numbering my paragraphs and I don't like the look of the text wrap in the vertical space where the numbers are. Anyone know how to deal with this?

Do you mean you like all line to be indented or all line exept first line? You have to give proper left indent and first line indent values to your text...
in upper picture I have used a negative value for first line, and same value as positive for left indent. That way first line hangs outside of indent.
in lower picture theres only left indent given and all lines have been indent.
You will find those indent fields in Control panel if you activate paragraph formatting, or from Paragraph panel (Type>Paragraph)

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