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94 Chapter 4 Formatting Text and Paragraphs
Setting Tab Stops Using the Text Inspector
Every document has built-in tab stops, usually spaced half an inch apart across the
page. In the Tabs pane of the Text Inspector, you can change the default tab spacing
or the decimal tab character for the entire document. You can also set additional tab
stops in any paragraph, or add a leader line, so that when you press the Tab key, a
dashed or dotted line extends across the tabbed distance. This is useful, for example,
for inserting dashed lines between a chapter title and its page number in a table of
contents.
To open the Tabs pane of the Text Inspector:
1 Choose View > Show Inspector (or click Inspector in the toolbar).
2 Click the Text Inspector button, and then click Tabs.
Set how far you want the
first line of each
paragraph to indent.
If you want to indent a
paragraph relative to the
page margins, specify
how far to indent it.
Add or remove tab stops
from the column.
Choose a leader line for
any tab stop selected in
the Tab Stops column.
For a tab stop selected in
the Tab Stops column,
select how you want the
text to align.
Type a new character to
change the decimal tab
character.
Set the default distance
between tabs.