OpenOffice Tutorial: Insert Fill Characters for Tab Stop
How-To: OpenOffice Tutorial: Insert Fill Characters for Tab Stop
- This screencast demostrates how to insert tab stop fill characters. Please note that nonprinting characters have been enabled to illustrate the positions of tabs.
- To insert fill characters, you must first select the paragraphs where your tab stops are.
- Start selecting text by clicking and holding the left mouse button on any part of the first paragraph.
- Next, while holding the button, move your mouse until the paragraphs you want are highlighted.
- Now just release the mouse button once part of the last paragraph is selected.
- Next, click here on "Format."
- On the menu that opens click on "Paragraph..."
- The paragraph dialogue window appears.
- If it is not open already, click on "Tabs" here.
- Now, here you will see the list of positions where the tab stops are located.
- Just, click on the position where you want the filler characters to start.
- Next, choose from the following fill character options.
- For this example we are choosing the "dots" just click on it once.
- Once finished, just click on OK..
- Great! As you can see the fill characters have now appeared.
- Congratulations! You have learned how to insert fill characters in tab stops.
by Kaj Kandler
Insert Fill Characters for Tab Stop
This screencast demonstrates how to insert fill characters in order to guide the
line to the
tab stop
.
You learn:
- How to open the paragraph dialog
- How to select the "tab stop" tab.
- How to select a tab stop
- How to select the type of fill characters.
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.
- Insert new tab stop.
- Move tab stop.
- Set multiple tab stops at once.
- Remove tab stop.
- Change tab stop type of existing tab stop.
- Understanding tab stop types.
- Change tab stop type for new tab stops.
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