Can't insert space at the beginning of a line in Word

I can’t see what makes Word behave that way, but you could try Ctrl+Shift+Space, which adds a no-break space. Looks like a space, but Word treats it differently.

If you just want the first line of each paragraph indented, specify that in your style settings. Or to do that for a single paragraph, see the answer from @DanielRHicks.

I fixed it by: - Click on the Page layout - Go to breaks - Now select Text wrapping. Problem solved. Now you can use space bar to insert space at the beginning of the sentence.

Highlight the paragraph, right mouse, select "Paragraph" and the "Indents and Spacing" tab.

Where it says "Special", in the Indentation section, select "First line", and specify in the adjacent box how much indentation you want. Save.

(I find this very odd -- it's an exceedingly hard function to find, yet one that many people want to use.)

I am making a resume, and couldn’t get it formatted the way I wanted because of this issue. I tried copy and pasting spaces, and the shortcut for adding spaces. These actions did add space, but a bigger space than I needed. So I decided to make the first letter white so it wouldn’t show up, and I could then format my resume appropriately. I know it is cheating, but it worked!