How-To: Using Default Tab Stops - OpenOffice.org Writer
- This screencast demonstrates the use of default tab stops.
- Please note that nonprinting characters have been enabled for you to see the tabs more easily.
- To start, you can see the default tab stops here on the ruler.
- They are indicated by small markers like this one here.
- If you did not set any tab stops of your own these default tab stops will be used when you press the tab key.
- If you did set tab stops of your own however, remember that only the default tab stops on the right of that new one will remain. All others on the left will disappear.
- To illustrate how to use the default tab stops, we will press the tab key on several places in this paragraph.
- Please take note of the effect on the text when the tab is in place.
- We will put a tab here...
- ..here...
- ..here..
- and here.
- Notice that the tabs stopped to match their corresponding default tab stops above.
- Great! You can now use the default tab stops.
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Using Default Tab Stops
This screencast demonstrates how to
format a paragraph
with default tab stops.
You learn:
- What are default tab stops.
- How to identify the tab stops in the ruler.
- How to insert tabulator characters
into the text to align with the default tab stops.
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:
- Change tab stop type of existing tab stop.
- Change stab stop type for new tab stops.
- Understand tab stop types.
- Set multiple tab stops at once.
- Insert a new tab stop.
- Insert tab stop fill characters.
- Remove a tab stop.
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