Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Cool Pages Tips / Set Tab Stops
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Another tip worth spending some time with is the ability to control your tab stops and this is something important, certainly in word processing documents here and we can do that fairly easily. Remember that with the inspector you have a default settings for your tabs and that is gotten to through your text inspector. So open up the inspector, click on the text inspector and then click on the tabs button here and you can set your default tabs which by default should be .5 of an inch. Now what you can also do is that you can add tabs to the ruler, so say that if you don't want the default or if you want to leave the default alone, you can click just up in the rules here in the lower half and if you keep clicking you can change the type of tab stop that it is. So if you double click, change it to center, to right justified and then to a decimal and you can see maybe there is a dot in the middle of that one, so there's back to the left and then finally it will set another tab stop right there. So it just sets in default tab stop so now if I tab through the document and add text, add text and then go to the right and add some more text it looks like that. So I'll back out of this now just hit the delete key a couple of times and go back to the beginning of my paragraph. Let's change this, let's go to the inspector and let's control this a little bit better. My tab stops, I can set at one inch and I can move this around with the rules, by the way, let's do a little sidebar here, what if you don't see that ruler? Go to the view menu and make sure that it's turned on by using that option right there, which if it's shown, will be hide rulers if it's not shown will be show rulers. So there you go and the tab stops don't go anywhere there. So again let's get out the inspector, and it's look at the tab stops, there's how they are selected, again text inspector tabs, one inch, three inch and at six inches I have different tab stops and I can change the nature of those tab stops, you saw me do it with a double click earlier. Now let's on this 3 inch tab stop right there, let's give that a center alignment. Let's give the right most one over here a right alignment, let's give it a decimal alignment and then you can select your decimal tab character and change that if you want to, but I'm going to leave it decimal and you'll see exactly what you're able to do or what you're changes will look like. So now let's tab over and put a menu item for example, let's put a description, I-P-T-I-O-N and let's tab over one more time. You can see where my tabs are going and let's put 34 and notice that this text is right justified until I hit the decimal character which is the dot here and then I can put 99 and it's aligned on the other side of that decimal character. So whatever you, on the decimal tab, whatever you set that character to be will define what the text pivots around or in this case it is numbers. So that's how you control your tabs and if I start a new paragraph those tabs will still be in place. So I will still be able to use those tabs. When I'm done with them I can just click and drag these right off just like that, notice that if I use the mouse, go up- to the ruler and click a tab stop and then drag it down into the document itself, it turns into a little poofy cloud, poof away goes the tab stop, away goes the tab stop, those tab stops are still there in that paragraph, their just not a part of this paragraph so if I hit the tab it will go back to the default which is .5 of an inch.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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