Getting Started with Word animation tutorial 116: Setting tab stops with rulers

When you are composing a Word document, you want to neatly arrange the columns of text that are not contiguous, and we can use tab stops in addition to using tables. tab stop settings, you can use the ruler, or you can do it in a dialog box. First of all, first of all to introduce the first method.

At the left end of the horizontal ruler, there is a tab stop selection button, which you can toggle between 2 indents and 5 tabs by clicking (both left and right click). 5 tabs are: left-aligned tab, right-aligned tab, Centered tab, decimal-Aligned tab, and vertical Bar-aligned tab. The previous three types and the Align button on the Formatting toolbar are very similar; decimal tab you can make the decimal point of the inserted number snap to the tab stop, other text and integers to the right, and the Bar tab to draw a straight line through the selected paragraph at the tab stop to separate the contents of the two columns.

First, set tab stops

You can do this by following these steps:

1. Click the tab-Stop Selection button on the left side of the horizontal ruler to toggle to determine a tab type.

2. Move the mouse pointer to the appropriate location for the horizontal ruler click, and the current tab appears in the click Position on the horizontal ruler.

3. Repeat 1, 2 steps, select and place other tabs.

Whenever a new tab is placed on the ruler, all the default tab stops on the left are automatically canceled. If the insertion point remains on the left side of the edit area, press the TAB key to move the insertion point directly to the first tab position, press the TAB key when you enter text, and then move to the second ..., after you have finished the row data, enter the previous tab stop setting to the new paragraph.

Tip: If you already have multiple-column text in your document that you made using the default tab stop, you can select a paragraph and follow the steps 1 and 2 above, and the text will be rearranged by the new tab stop.

Ii. Adjust or delete tab stops

Select the paragraph (if it is just a paragraph, place the insertion point in that section), and then adjust or remove tab stops as follows:

Position tab stops: Hold down the left mouse button and drag the tabs left or right on the ruler. Alt-Drag to show the exact distance on the ruler.

Delete tab stops: Press and hold the left button to drag tabs out of the ruler. When you remove a tab stop, the text that was aligned with this tab stop is moved to the next tab stop.

The animation of the specific operation process is as follows:

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