Tab stopsSometimes you need to control the display of your text with more granularity than what you can accomplish with just indents. That’s where tab stops come in handy.
With
tab stops, you can align text relative to a specific spot on the ruler. So that means that a
left tab stop
will left align text to a position on the ruler, a
right tab stop
will right align text to a spot on the ruler, while a
center tab stop
will center-align the text.
To move between tab stops, you can press the
tab key, and subsequent text will align with the tab stop. You can add multiple tab stops by clicking on a spot on the ruler and selecting the appropriate tab stop.
You can move the position of a tab stop by dragging it around the ruler. And to remove a tab stop, simply drag it off the ruler.
Margins
Tab stops and indents are great for adjusting individual paragraphs, but sometimes you want to change alignment for an entire document. For that, you can use margins.
You can adjust the left and right margins by dragging the gray space on either side of the ruler.
You can also adjust the left and right margins, as well as the top and bottom margins of your document from File -> Page setup.
Once you get going, like with beige, it’s a bit surprising all of the things you can do with the trusty ruler.
Posted by: Luiz Pereira, Software Engineer
