Amazing tool to remove all indents from Word document with only one click!

With the Remove all Indents feature of Kutools for Word, you can easily to remove all kinds of indents from the whole Word document or a certain selection with only one click, including the first line indents generated by spaces or tab characters which cannot be removed by layout in Word.

Actually, you can quickly remove all indents from selection or the whole document with setting the page layout in Word.

Note : This method cannot remove the first line indents made by spaces or tab characters. VBA and a handy tool can remove them.

1. Select the paragraphs you will remove indents from.
If you need to remove all indents from the whole documents, you can click to activate the document, and then press Ctrl + A keys together to select the whole document.

2. Go to the Paragraph group on the Layout (or Page Layout) tab, and then:
(1) In the Left box, please type 0 and press the Enter key;
(2) In the Right box, please type 0 and press the Enter key.

Now all indents (except the first line indents made by spaces or tab characters) are removed at once.

Normally we can remove all left indents in Word by using the Paragraph feature. And here is the detailed description for you to quickly remove all left indents

Note : This method cannot remove the first line indents made by spaces or tab characters. VBA and a handy tool can remove them.

1. Select the paragraphs you want to remove indents, right click, and choose Paragraph from the context menu. See screenshot:

2. In the Paragraph dialog box, please type 0 into both Left and Right boxes, select (none) from the Special drop down list, and click the OK button. See screenshot:

Now all indents (except the first line indents made by spaces or tab characters) are removed at once.

If you are good at Macro, the VBA code is also available for you to remove all indents from selection or the whole Word document easily.

1. Select the paragraphs or the whole document you will remove all indents from.

2. Press Alt + F11 keys together to open the VBA window, click Insert > Module to create a new Module window, and then paste below code into the window:

VBA: Remove all indents from selection or the whole document in Word

Sub remove_indents()
With Selection.ParagraphFormat
.CharacterUnitLeftIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitRightIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitFirstLineIndent = 0
.LeftIndent = CentimetersToPoints(0)
.RightIndent = CentimetersToPoints(0)
.FirstLineIndent = CentimetersToPoints(0)
End With
End Sub
Sub remove_all_the_first_line_indent_spaces()
Dim i As Paragraph, n As Long
Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'close screen and refresh
For Each i In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs 'cycling in the pragraphs of the active document
For n = 1 To i.Range.Characters.Count
If i.Range.Characters(1).Text = " " Or i.Range.Characters(1).Text = "　" Or i.Range.Characters(1).Text = Chr(9) Then
i.Range.Characters(1).Delete
Else: Exit For
End If
Next n
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True 'restore screen and refresh
End Sub
Sub remove_all_indents()
remove_indents
remove_all_the_first_line_indent_spaces
End Sub

3. Click Run button or Press F5 key to apply the VBA code.

To remove all indents, the Format function cannot remove the first line indents which are using the space or tab characters to indent, while the VBA is too complicated. Now recommend you the most convenient method - using Kutools for Word. With Kutools for Word. Only one click allows you to remove all indents

Just Click Kutools > Indents > Remove All Indents, and all kinds of indents are removed from the whole document immediately.
If you need to remove all indents from a certain selection, please select the content first, and then click Kutools > Indents > Remove All Indents.

Kutools for Word's Remove Indents feature also supports to remove all spaces/tab indents, remove all first line indents, remove all left indents, remove all right indents by one click only.