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InDesign Right-Justified Tabs Acting as if Right Indent Applied

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January 31, 2025
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I've had an issue with right-justified tabs in multiple documents where they behave like a right indent is applied to the paragraph. Adding a Right Indent Tab seems to clear the issue in the style.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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What happens if you copy/paste to a new text frame?

I'm thinking Span Columns might be overriding a 2-column text frame, but it's hard to tell from the screen capture.

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Joseph-CAuthor

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It's a 1-column frame. My guess is that it's some kind of bug, or I need to delete and reinstall InDesign. It's happened with other documents, too.

I'm running ID 20.0.1.32 in Mac OS Sequoia 15.3 (24D60) on a 2019 MacBook Pro with 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 and 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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Span Columns is a paragraph settings.

Here is a layout with 3 columns; the heading spans all columns; the intro spans two columns; the small table-like grid uses the split column settings

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Peter Spier

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Cant really tell where the tab is from your style definition screen captures. Please post a shot of the tab ruler on top of the column.

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Joseph-CAuthor

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It's in this screenshot. The tab is at 43p0, the width of the text frame. However, a non-existing right indent prevents it from working properly. The right indent corrects itself in the paragraph style once I add the special character for the right indent tab in the text.

Peter Spier

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That screen shot is showing the tab is beyond the right margin of your column...

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