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- Tabs
- Selecting Tabs from the Text menu activates a dialog box that
- allows you to add or remove tab stops for the current paragraph. The
- current paragraph is the one that contains the highlighted text, if there
- is highlighted text. Otherwise the current paragraph is the one that
- contains the text insertion bar. You can have up to 16 tab stops defined
- for a given paragraph
- When you add a tab stop you can specify up to three attributes for it.
- These are:
- • Alignment: Alignment can either be Left, Right, or Center.
- • Leading Character Sequence: The lead character sequence can
- be any valid sequence of characters, including a space.
- • Position: The position can be set at any location on the horizontal
- ruler. The alignment of the tab stop determines how text is aligned
- to it:
- • Left alignment causes the first character of text typed at the
- tab stop to be located to the tab stop position. As additional
- characters are typed in, the text segment is expanded to the right
- or the tab stop.
- • Right alignment causes the last character of text typed at the
- tab stop to be flush to the tab stop position. As additional
- characters are typed in, the text segment is expanded to the left
- of the tab stop.
- • Center alignment causes the text segment to be centered with
- respect to the tab stop position. As additional characters are
- typed in, the text segment is expanded both to the left and the
- right of the tab stop position, so that the text segment remains
- centered with respect to it.
- The alignment of a tab stop is set by clicking and holding on the down
- facing arrowhead to the right of the Alignment display box in the
- Tabs dialog window. This activates a pop-up menu with the three
- options indicated on it. Drag to the desired selection and release.
- The selected alignment now appears in the display box.
- The lead character sequence is used to fill white space between the
- end of a text segment at a tab stop and the text segment directly to the
- left of it. You specify the lead character sequence by typing it directly
- into the text box to the right of Leader in the Tabs dialog window,
- and entering return or tab.
- Alternatively, you can activate a pop-up menu by clicking and holding
- on the arrowhead to the right of Leader, and then drag to and select
- one of the prespecified lead character sequences.
- The position attribute of a tab stop is specified by typing the value
- into the text box to the right of Position. The unit of measure for the
- position the same as that being used for the horizontal ruler.
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