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Hi,
Is there a way to reuse tab styles to ensure consistency and work faster across my file?
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Create a new style and then use the Based On section and select your original style with the tab options.
Then when you change the original style it will change in all the styles that have Based On selected.
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/paragraph-character-styles.html
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@Eugene Tyson Thank, but when I apply it across my document it doesnt seem to remain consistent. Do you know why this might be happening?
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Table styles get easily overriden. Remove all mabually applied cell styles by clicking on none. Then will only those cell styles defined ij the table style. be used.
Now you can hold the option/alt key and reapply the table style to remove all other overrides.
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Hi @Willi Adelberger This is not a table, its setup as tabs
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@Willi Adelberger @Eugene Tyson
The current issue seems to occur when I have text that is longer or shorter, causing the tab spacing to resize. Why is this happening, and is there a way to fix it?
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Show us a screenshot with the the tabulator panel.
Have both txt strings the very same paragraph style?
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@Willi Adelberger Here you go. In this instance, it makes sense that the spacing is larger so it matches up, but when I apply the paragraph style to another text frame, the distance doesn't match up with the original. Does this make sense?
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This is for a different text. As you can see, the spacing is much smaller, even though I used the same paragraph style.
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I cannot recognize your problem. In the text above from Mose, that he cannot speak, you have much more space before the sentence, in the the other text about the spiritual gifts the pre-text extends accross the tabulator stop and catches the net automatic stop.
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@Willi AdelbergerMaybe tabs are not the correct way to achieve what I want. Basically, I always want there to be consistent spacing across all of these sections. As you can see, the second image (spiritual gifts) has smaller spacing. What type of method can I use to always have the same spacing? Or does this maybe not even matter? I hope this makes more sense.
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Here is an example of how the distance is not consistent between image one and two.
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Use alignment to the baseline gride.
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Thank you for pointing that out. I didn’t realize it. However, this doesn’t fix the issue.
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Hi @Teo116 I think that you misunderstand how tabs work: the purpose of a tab stop is not to set up a consistent space where the tab stop is, but to align the text following the tab.
So all your screenshots show that the tabs you have set up work properly. In your first screenshot, the words “Ich” start at the same distance of the left edge of the frame, and on the second one, the words “Meine” start at the same distance.
On my example below, the words “following” start at 65 mm of the left edge of the frame.
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@jmlevy Thank you for the input! Is there a other feature I can use for what I am trying to archive?
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If you want to achieve a consistent spacing between WORDS - you need to use "special" spaces, that won't be affected by Justification settings:
But that's not the correct way to do it - your last screenshot:
is correct and will look much better than what you want to achieve.
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Tabs don't define a fixed space, they define a fixed postion on the line. I suspect what you may really want is to use some combination of fixed width spaces (em space, en space, etc.) between words.