Tab Difficulty

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 20, 2017
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Hi,

I'm having trouble with tabs. I'm wanting to have a very small tab between words, but even when I click just a short distance on the ruler in the tab bar it does way too far. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

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Monika Gause

Community Expert

WHen taking the screenshot, you will need to Turn on the "Hidden characters" in the Type menu.

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Rob de Winter

Community Expert

In addition to Pawel: most of the time when this happens the text is not selected when you change the tab. So, first select all the text (with type tool), then change the distance of the tab, then try again. Hope this helps? Otherwise it's better to send a screenshot, just like Pawel suggested.

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bfcreativenyc1Author

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Thanks, but not sure I understand. How can you have all the text selected when you move a tab. Doesn't the cursor have to be in only one spot to do a tab?

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

That seems to have helped! Thanks! Now I'm having issues with getting the dotted lines in the tab space. I selected the tab area, clicked on the tab on the ruler, put a period in the Leader window, and hit return. Yet nothing is happening. Am I doing something wrong?

You are showing 2 tabs in your tabs ruler, but your text only has one. Best to tidy up your tabs as looks as if you have more than you need confusing the issue, and will only take a few seconds to cleanse and recreate.

Select all your text, use the tabs fly out menus and clear all tabs. Now create your leader tab and should look like this

macpawel

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please show screenshot of your document and this text

Pawel

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