Dealing With The Tab Type Selector and The Tabs Dialog Box

Dealing With The Tab Type Selector and The Tabs Dialog Box



You would be very surprised how many people have never realized that there is a "Tab Type Selector"all the way to the left of your ruler.

1.  For starters, if your Ruler is not visible, go to your View Tab and on the left side of the Ribbon make sure you place a check next to "Ruler".  

2.  Now that your Ruler is visible, look all the way to the left of the ruler and you will see.a little box.  Click on it until you get an "L".  That is a left tab type.  Click twice more and you see a backwards "L".  The backwards L is a  "Right Tab" type.

3.  This is the point.  Whatever Tab Type is sitting in your Tab Type Selector, will determine what Tab Type you get when you click on the ruler.

Below are the major Tab Types:

Left
The text extends to the right from the tab stop.  The right side of the paragraph is uneven
Center
The text is centered at the tab stop.
Right
The text extends to the left from the tab stop until the tab's space is filled, and then the text extends to the right.
Decimal
The text before the decimal point extends to the left, and text after the decimal point extends to the right.
Bar
We don't use it a lot in law firms but a vertical line is placed at the specified position on each line in a document. Instead, of having to use the vertical bar key on your keyboard at a certain location, the vertical bar tab will automatically place that character at a specific location.  A good example is you have multiple columns as a set of lists and you are not using tables but using tabs to separate the columns.  In order to create a divider line between each column the vertical bar tab will kick in and place a vertical bar on each line before you tab to the next column.

4.  When you place a Tab In the ruler, double clicking on that tab will open your Tabs Dialog Box.  Sometimes it does not.  If so, go to Home, Paragraph and at the bottom of the Paragraph Dialog Box you will see a button called Tabs.  So either way you will get into the Tabs Dialog Box.

5.  When getting into your Tabs Dialog Box you have the ability to change the Tab Type, attach a Dotted Line Leader, a Dashed and/or a Solid Line Leader if you need to produce those type of lines.

6.  To remove a tab from the ruler go to that tab and click and pull down which will remove the tab from the ruler.

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