Word tab and tab, spaces

First, let's take a look at what is Word's tab stop and how it works!

I. The concept and function of the tab position

A tab stop is a position on a horizontal ruler that specifies the distance from which text is indented or where a column of text begins, allowing the user to align lines to the left, right, or center, or to snap text to a decimal or vertical bar character.

Users can automatically insert specific characters, such as periods or dashes, before tabs. By default, when you press the TAB key one time, Word inserts a tab in the document with an interval of 0.74 centimeters.

Second, the application of the tab position

You need to use tab stops in typesetting, in editing, indexing, or making catalogs.

Iii. Types of tab-stops

The types of tab stops are: left-aligned, center-aligned, right-aligned, decimal-aligned, and vertical-aligned.

Iv. Examples of use of tab-stops

Here's a list of pages that you can use to make a book from a tab stop.

Click the junction of the horizontal ruler and the vertical ruler to make the left tab change to right tab.

Under the horizontal ruler with the page number alignment, double-click to insert a tab stop, and the system will also pop up the tab Stop dialog box. Select the "2 in Leader" ... Radio box, click the OK button.

Next, just enter the title of each chapter in turn, press the "tab" key on each line, and the system automatically inserts a decimal point after the title name you enter. "As a leader, the insertion point is moved to the production bit of the current row setting, and you can enter the page number for the title content, regardless of the number of digits, all the page numbers are aligned."

If you modify the title text of the chapter, the leader is automatically added and deleted, and does not affect the alignment of the page number at the end of each line, the overall effect is very beautiful.

Tips: In typesetting test paper, you can insert multiple tab stops to achieve the data positioning input, such as the selection of options in the alignment, and so on, you should select "Leader" to "none."

V. The difference between a tab stop and a space

tab stops are used with the TAB key, and if you don't press the TAB key, you won't be able to enter tab stops.

tab stops allow us to set how much distance each tab key is vacated by using the Format → tab stop method.

And the space bar, you can not set the distance of its movement, only set it to two States, that is, Half-width and full-width state.

As a result, the distance between the tab stops can be large and small, random variable, and the space bar distance base is a fixed value.