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дмитрийк50860592
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Inspiring
June 21, 2018
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Adjusting tab indents in a text box

  • June 21, 2018
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Is there a way to adjust positions where cursor moves after pressing "tab"  button in a text box?

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Correct answer дмитрийк50860592

It looks like there are two possible settings for tab ident. Tab can either be about 2 letters length or about 15.

The second settings is too big for me. Luckily there's a way to make tab ident about two letters by resetting paragraph.

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дмитрийк50860592
дмитрийк50860592AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
October 29, 2018

It looks like there are two possible settings for tab ident. Tab can either be about 2 letters length or about 15.

The second settings is too big for me. Luckily there's a way to make tab ident about two letters by resetting paragraph.

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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June 21, 2018

The only controls for indents are in the Paragraph Panel. There are no tab settings in After Effects. You can adjust first line offset, paragraph offset and several other parameters but that is about it. I've never had a layout problem I could not solve, it's just not as easy or automatic as it is in a word processor.

    дмитрийк50860592
    дмитрийк50860592Author
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2018

    So, you mean, there's no way to do it? Probably, because the new text layers in Premiere has such setting called Tab Width and if I "replace with after effects composition" the text, it looks like everything transfers well into After Effects except tabulation witch getsscrewed up.

    Interestingly, some compositions in AE have Tab width about the same as space, while others have about 10 letters width or even more. And I'm yet to figure out why it's so and how to change it.

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    stuart-mccoy
    Inspiring
    February 17, 2022

    Overlord is a huge workflow boost for the Ai -> AE pipeline, and also allows you to push type!
    If you frequently do typesetting in there for AE use, it'd be well worth the investment.


    I use Overlord ALL THE TIME, and until recently, I never had an issue with setting up footnotes in my animated social graphics as a single block of paragraph text. AE handled them fairly well but today I ran into the problem noted above. I just had to tweak the paragraph indent settings to get what I needed but this really should be something AE can manage. I wouldn't recommend laying out type in AE but pulling in type from Illustrator should be a cakewalk. In fact, Adobe should buy Overlord and implement the feature into AI and AE right tout of the box. Why this isn't a thing is beyond me.

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