Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Even More Pages / Setting Indents
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Now, as we wrap up things here in this seventh chapter of our look at iWork 2008, we will deal with setting indents and we can set indents for our paragraphs. Again we're dealing with our building blocks of our word processing documents here, so setting a paragraph indent is certainly a vital component of that. A couple ways we can do it. One is just simply hit the tab button here and you will again, as you just saw here, and I'll undo it, but we indent that paragraph using the tab key. Now, why is that tab key skootch us over or create an indent that is half an inch into the page? Well, the reason why that is is because of the properties that have been set in the inspector. So if you go to the inspector, you want to choose the text inspector here. You will see the tabs and here you can see that your tab settings or default tab is .5 inch. So if you want to make your indent a little less aggressive, I guess, than the default at 5 inch, you can set that and then now if I hit tab on the keyboard, notice that it doesn't go in quite as far. So I can do this anywhere I want to. If I create a new paragraph here, got to the end here and now I create a new paragraph again. There's not default setting here, or actually there is, I'll show you in just a second. But if I want to start a new paragraph, new paragraph, as you can see here, and when I hit tab it took me in .25 of an inch. Now, why, when I make a new paragraph, as I do here at the bottom of this page, is there no default indent? And what if I want there to be a default indent? Well, again, go to the inspector, use your text inspector and notice that your first line, your left and right paragraph indents are just as you see here. So if I want a default indent of maybe .5 of an inch, I can do that. Now let's see what happens. Now you see indeed that this new paragraph is going to be indented .5 of an inch. And if I start a new paragraph again, it's going to be indented. Not .25 as I set here with a tab stop, but if I tab, it'll go .25 over from that. So that is what you can do with the inspector, with the text inspector. You can set paragraphs, individual paragraphs, you can set a margin for the paragraph like that, a left and right indent for the entire thing or just the first line or if you want to create a paragraph that has say an overhang, you can then do this. Let's just take it in an entire inch, same thing on the right. Let's set something like that and see what happens. Now, if I create this new paragraph, I'll just type text as quickly as I can here across the page. Now that is what's happening. The second line of that paragraph is obeying the commands that I set in the text inspector in the tabs button here and once I get past the first line, which has a paragraph indent of just zero inches, the next line is going to have a left indent of one inch, the right now should also have a similar indent. And indeed it does, although you can see here that because it's one big word, it doesn't quite know where to make the break. So this would look a little more, you can see it a little more clearly if I didn't just start typing and made some actual spaces between my words as you can see right there. So those are your settings. And remember that you can incorporate this into section breaks, you can incorporate this into layout breaks, but until I go back and change these elements here with the selected paragraph or with a new paragraph, close and make a new paragraph and until I make those changes, like that, any paragraph that I type will conform to those settings that I've configured. So there, new paragraph again, we're kind of back to square one where I can type a new paragraph and if I enter and start a new one, hit the tab key, it takes me in .25 from my tab stop.
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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