indent text in TEXTEDIT

I have a MacBook Pro 10.6.8. In TextEdit (v. 1.6) I have not been able to figure out how to insert or create indented text except as a list. Checking list option 'none' DOESN'T produce a list without a preceding symbol/marker, but kicks me down the list, to indented text preceded by a dash. So any indented text is always preceded by a dash.

I need to indent quoted text a lot, so with is a big deal for me.

I don't have MS Office, and my only alternative is Papers, which not only has a lot more features than I usually need, but also produces documents that other people can't open easily.

Sometimes I compose my doc as a new Mail message, in which indenting is a snap w/ Command], then copy my 'letter' into TextEdit. Quelle drag.

There must be an easier way, but I've followed up lots of search engines queries without finding it. Help, please?