OpenOffice Tutorial: Insert a New Tab Stop.
How-To: OpenOffice Tutorial: Insert a New Tab Stop.
- For this screencast, please take note that the nonprinting characters are shown to clearly illustrate the tabs and tab stops.
- To insert a new tab stop, first click on the paragraph where you want to put the stop.
- Next, move to the ruler and choose the position of your new tab stop.
- Now, just click once on the ruler to place the new tab stop.
- Good! Notice that this tab has increased it's length to match the new tab stop.
- Also, you will see that all the "default tab stops" to the left of the new stop have disappeared.
- On the right of it however, the default tab stops are still present and should be still in effect.
- Great! You have learned to insert new tab stops using the ruler.
by Kaj Kandler
Insert a New Tab Stop.
This screencast demonstrates how to insert a new
tab stop
in the text flow using the
ruler.
You learn:
- How to select a paragraph.
- How to select different types of tab stops.
- How to place a new tab stop on the horizontal ruler.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why does the screencast show the tabulator characters with an arrow, while they are 'invisible' on my screen?
A: The tabulator character
is a non printing character.
You can make the tabulator character visible by
viewing the non printing characters.
Advanced topics
For related functionality see:
- Format with default tab stops.
- Move a tab stop.
- Set multiple tab stops at once
- Insert tab stop fill characters.
- Remove a tab stop.
- Change tab stop's type.
- Understanding tab stop types.
- Change the type for new tab stops.s
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