Tabs in Illustrator not working properly

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November 25, 2019
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Hi everyone

just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem as I am with Tabs and indents in Illustrator (see screencapture below). No matter what I do with the Left indent, Frst line left indent and Tabs they do not line up.

I am trying to set up a paragraph style as there is a fair bit of taxt in the diagram I am doing but Illustrator keeps changing the values I am keying in. If I do it manually (dragging the tabs and indents it changes the values again.

I am replicating the same thing in Indesign and there’s no issue there (it works fine).

If anyone can shed any light in this it would be greatly appreciated.

regards

Angelos

Creative Cloud

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Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Hi Angelos,

Thanks for reaching out. That's not a typical experience with Illustrator. Could you please share a few more details like:

OS and version of Illustrator.
Is the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you please share the document(s)/asset(s) with us? You can upload it to the creative cloud and share the download link.

You can also take a look at this help article: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/tabs.html

Regards,

Srishti

angelos1974Author

Inspiring

Hi Srishti

thank you very much for getting back to me. After reading your reply I went back to the document and did some further checkings on the file. The text was being copied from InDesign and I was pasting it into Illustrator and it was bringing in a hiden charecter which I’ve inserted (from InDesign).

What I usually do in InDesign if I want to Verticaly align the text of a paragraph after a bullet point, I insert a (Command vertical slash) after the (tab) and it aligns the rest of that paragraph under where I insert the (Command vertical slash).

InDesign sees (Command vertical slash) as a hiden charecter but with Illustrator although with some fonts you can’t see it it must mistake it as a real charecter see the attached examples attached.

I was using the Font Meta for my document and that hidden charecter (Command forward slash) was tricking Illustrator.