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There are a number of ways that you can use Tabs in your document and one of these is to create lines for someone to write on or sign their name. Here I have entries for Name, Address and so on in a tear-off panel in a document. I want to create a series of lines where my reader can write the desired information, so I'm going to select Name, Address, Phone and E-mail and I'm going to open the Tabs Dialog. I'll click the Home Tab, click the Paragraph Dialog Launcher, and click Tabs. I want to create a tab that will be the starting point for my writing line. It will need to start 1 inch in from the left margin so it clears the entries that I already have typed, so I'm going to type 1 inch in the Tab Stop position. It doesn't matter too much what my Alignment is because I'm not going to actually be typing so I'm going to leave it set as a Left Tab and to set this tab I'll click the Set button. I want my signing line to go from the 1-inch mark all the way across to the 5-inch mark so I need my second Tab Stop at the 5-inch position. In the Tab Stop position area I'm going to type 5 inches and, again, because I'm not going to be actually typing anything it doesn't really matter what my Alignment is so I'm going to leave Left selected. What I do want, though, is a signing line, or a series of dots between the Tab at 1 inch and the Tab at 5 inches. If I set a Leader character for the Tab at 5 inches I'll get a Leader character that runs from the point where I press the Tab key the first time all the way up to where I press it the second time, the 5-inch Mark. I'm going to select Leader character 2, because I like this series of dots. To set my Tab I'll click the Set button and then I'll click OK to close the dialog. Now let's have a look at this Tab at work. I'm going to click after the word Name and I'm going to press the Tab key once. That moves us to the 1-inch Mark and then watch what happens when I press the Tab key a second time. A series of dots, or leader characters, appears from the 1-inch position all the way to the Tab Stop at 5 inches. This is a great signing line, or a line for somebody to write text on. Let's click after Address and do the same thing. I'll press the Tab key once to get to the 1-inch Mark and then again to get to the 5-inch Mark with my Leader character in position. This line doesn't have any text in it, but it's going to work exactly the same way. I'll press the Tab key once to go to the 1-inch Mark and again to go to the 5-inch Mark with the Leader character and we'll just finish off the last two lines exactly the same way. Leader Tabs are handy when you want to create a series of dotted lines or a solid line for someone to handwrite information in. While we can create a variety of Tabs from the Ruler Bar it's not possible to create Dot Leader Tabs from this position, but there is a workaround. Let's move further down the document and let's see how we would create the same Tab Panel using the Ruler Bar this time. I'm going to set up the same one in 5-inch sets of Tabs using the Ruler so I need a Left Tab at 1 inch, so I'm just going to click here to position it in position and then I need another Left Tab at 5 inches, so I'll click here to put it in position. To make the 5-inch tab a Dot Leader Tab I'm just going to double-click on it to open the Tab Dialog. I'm going to select my 5-inch Tab here and then select the Leader Character that I want, which is this one here. I'll click Set to set the Tab at this position and OK to confirm my changes. This Tab is going to work exactly the same way as it did earlier so I'll type Name and a colon and I'll press the Tab key twice, first to get to the 1-inch Tab, second to get to my 5-inch Tab that has the Dot Leader on it. I'll press Enter and type the next line and again, it works exactly the same way. Now that I've finished typing my panel I no longer need my Tabs, so I need to get rid of them. To do that I'm just going to drag them off the Ruler Line, but I need to make sure I'm in a new line before I do so because I don't want to lose the Tabs for this E-mail line. When you create lines like these using Tabs they can be adjusted if the positioning's not correct. I'm going to select these lines and I'll change the Tab positions. I'll drag this one to one and a half inches and then drag this one in to four and a half inches. You can see now that the lines are much shorter because the distance between the two tabs has been reduced because the Tabs have been moved.