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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
Chapter 4 Formatting Text and Paragraphs 93
You can place tab stops where you want them in the document body or in text boxes.
To set a new tab stop:
m Click the horizontal ruler where you want to set the tab stop.
To change the tabs:
1 Select the text you want to adjust.
2 On the horizontal ruler, drag the blue tab icons to change the location of the tab
stops.
To change a tab to a different type:
m Control-click the tab icon and choose an option from the shortcut menu. Or double-
click the tab icon in the ruler repeatedly until the type of tab you want appears.
Here is a description of what each tab type does:
 Left Tab: Aligns the left side of text with the tab stop
 Center Tab: Places the center of text at the tab stop
 Right Tab: Aligns the right side of text with the tab stop
 Decimal Tab: For numbers, aligns the decimal point with the tab stop (You can set
a different text character to serve as the decimal tab character; see “Setting Tab
Stops Using the Text Inspector” below.)
To delete a tab from the ruler:
m Drag it off the ruler.
Blue tab icons appear on
the horizontal ruler when
you select tabbed text
on a page.
Decimal tab
Right tab
Center tab
Left tab
Choose from among
these tab types.