"Alt-09" worked in MS Word for me, but not in Jira.  Also, I tried copying tabbed text from Word to Jira, but Jira un-tabs it.

This might seem like a low priority issue, but it isn't.  Tabbing allows for better readability.  Without being able to tab, Jira is slowing everyone down who has to read text that isn't usefully formatted.

Workaround: use ASCII code to enter TAB -> ASCII decimal code:  '09' (see: https://www.asciitable.com)

Windows: press and hold the ALT key while typing the character code  '09' on the numeric keypad 

You must use the numeric keypad to type the numbers, and not the keyboard.
Make sure that the NUM LOCK key is on if your keyboard requires it to type numbers on the numeric keypad._

(see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/insert-ascii-or-unicode-latin-based-symbols-and-characters-d13f58d3-7bcb-44a7-a4d5-972ee12e50e0 ) 

MacOS see: https://www.barcodefaq.com/knowledge-base/mac-extended-ascii-character-chart/

This seems like a major bug, there is no way to indent text in a Jira task whatsoever.

Issue still persists. 

Tab key is not allowing to indent the text.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for previously raising this bug and bringing it to our attention.

Within our company roadmap and work capacity, we try to address or review each bug request but admit that not each one will be resolved. To continue the culture of being honest and open, we are closing this bug to focus on our upcoming roadmap for all Confluence users.

As we continue to roll out features we do look at requests made by our users and if you feel like this bug is still impacting your team please let us know.

Thank you again for providing valuable feedback to our team!

Possibly similar issue: 

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58496

Hmm. The conclusion is "This is also been rectified for new editor where the tab key does work." No the tab key does not work in the new editor. In the new editor the tab key provides a shortcut to the text indentation function. Would it not be possible to get the tab key to do what it's supposed to do, which is insert a tab character? That is not the same thing as indenting the line.

Dear emartin2 and watchers,

We have reviewed this bug from a current standpoint and we have verified this Bug is no longer reproducible. We have also improved the description and provided an update

If you're still affected, please feel free to raise a new support ticket and we will help you better from there. Feel free to pass any updates needed here. If you have any further questions let us know as well, we'll be happy to assist you. 

Warm Regards,
Ku Ahmad Najmi | Atlassian Support

This broke many of our team's pages, does not allow us to have reasonable, readable text and is a basic nuisance. Please fix.

For me, the indent icon only partially works on headings and paragraph text. I can only indent one level in. 

This is pretty annoying because I would like to be able to differentiate the level of detail within the text I create using indentation. I commonly need to go three levels in (if I am using examples, or providing links). On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the most frustrated with this issue, I would rate myself at a 3. 

I am using Chrome Version 72.0.3626.119.

Me too. I'm sure it never used to do this!

Same experience as Joe Harstad

Same experience as Greg

When using the New Experience, and using Sections in th editor (the icon-based section addition and formatting, not the gadget), the indent/outdent icon is grayed out for headers and paragraph text.  TAB key does not work for the function.

This means I cannot get my page off the left wall, which makes for difficult reading as I like to indent when I go into finer detail, higher-value hearings, etc.

This is a regression.  Pages which I had were able to do it, and now when I edit them they become a mess.

New pages crawl along the left wall.

is this ever  gonna get fixed its a huge pain in the butt to not be able to use indent  with the TAB key up untill now you guys havent fixed anything usefull

I have the same issue with the server version (Confluence 5.10.4). I would appreciate a lot if indenting with the tab key was possible.

Any resolution for this?  I find it hard to swallow that you would charge for documentation software that doesn't even support a tab key. Extremely frustrating.

Thank you for your response. I am using Confluence Cloud.

Dear will30,

Thanks for submitting the ticket
Would you please let me know what affect version of Confluence that you met this issue?

Thanks,
Minh Tran
Confluence BugMaster
Atlassian