Tabs in Illustrator not working properly

[angelos1974]

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

[Nancy OShea]

Moving this post from Get Started to Illustrator forum.

[Srishti Bali]

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

[angelos1974]

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.

I hope I am making sense. 

regards

Angelos