Aligns text and numbers by decimal point. A vertical line character is inserted at the bar tab. If you want to create an additional tab at an exact location, you can use a custom tab stop. You can set a tab leader here, which is a series of dots, dashes, or line that extends across the empty space added by a tab. These are very helpful when you need to line up information across multiple lines, like in a directory or table of contents.
Click the Clear button in the Tabs dialog box to remove a single tab stop or click the Clear All button to remove all tab stops. You can adjust a tab stop directly from the ruler, moving it to a new position or removing it entirely.
This does work, but it generates a processing load and can cause Word to be sluggish. The alignment tab introduced in Word addresses the need for a tab that adjusts automatically. To see how it works:. Double-click in the header area of your document to open the Header pane. If you have the horizontal ruler displayed, you will see that the header already has center and right-aligned tab stops.
But these are just ordinary tabs, as you will see if you change the margins. Start by deleting these tab stops. This will open the Alignment Tab dialog. Select the desired tab type and click OK. Note that you can choose to align the tab stops relative to Margin or Indent. This is useful when you have used indents positive or negative to make your header or footer width different from the page margin width. If you now change your page margins or orientation, you will see that the tabbed text adjusts accordingly.
Important Note: Unlike the Tabs dialog, which allows you to insert tab stops , the Alignment Tab dialog actually inserts tab characters if you have nonprinting characters displayed, you will see the arrow that represents each tab , and it inserts them in order. If you set a Right tab first and then a Center tab, you will get very odd results.
You will also see that no tab stops are actually displayed on the ruler. But you can make it available in the document body by adding the command to your Quick Access Toolbar. Also, if you set a decimal tab in a table, the cell contents which must be left-aligned , will jump to that tab automatically: you don't have to enter a tab character.
A borderless table has one other major advantage over a tabbed list—the text in it can word-wrap. You may very well start out using a tabbed list, then realize halfway through that you need the text to word-wrap. Provided you have used tabs properly, it is almost a one-step process to convert the tabbed list to a table:.
Word and earlier: Select the text to be converted. On the Table menu, select Convert Text to Table , confirm the desired number of rows and columns in the ensuing dialog, press Enter , and you're done. Word and above: Select the text to be converted. Confirm the desired number of rows and columns in the ensuing dialog, press Enter , and you're done. But if you tabbed more than once between any two blocks of text, the resulting table will be a mess.
One more word of advice about tabs: If you are accustomed to indenting the first line of a paragraph using a tab, don't do it. The proper and timesaving way to do this in Word is to use a first-line indent. You can set this in the Paragraph dialog or by dragging the first-line indent marker on the ruler bar. This is the top triangle of the three buttons to the right of the tab selector button.
Types of tabs The Tabs dialog lists five kinds of tab stops, as follows: Left. How to set tabs Like many tasks in Word, setting tabs can be done in more than one way. Figure 3. The Tabs dialog in Word There are several ways to access the Tabs dialog in Word: Any version: Double-click on any tab stop on the horizontal ruler. Word and earlier: On the Format menu, choose Tabs… Word and above: Open the Paragraph dialog by clicking the dialog launcher in the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group on the Home or Page Layout tab or by right-clicking in a paragraph and choosing Paragraph… from the shortcut menu.
If you do not have the ruler displayed, display it as follows: Word and earlier: Click Ruler on the View menu. A new kind of tab Word introduced a new kind of tab, the alignment tab. To see how it works: Double-click in the header area of your document to open the Header pane. The same thing happens when opening a web link, image or video in a new tab using the context menu. Check this setting to load and display the page in a new foreground tab instead.
When you open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately : When you middle-click on a Web link or hold down Ctrl command while clicking with the left mouse button , the page will be opened in a new tab.
That page will not be displayed and will load in a background tab. Confirm before closing multiple tabs : Select this setting to enable a warning dialog to confirm your choice to close a window with multiple tabs shown below to prevent accidentally closing the entire window when you only intend to close the current tab.
To learn more, see How to configure Close Tab warnings in Firefox. If applicable Warn you when closing multiple tabs : This option preference is only shown if you disabled the warning dialog Firefox displays to confirm your choice to close a window with multiple tabs shown below. Check this setting to re-enable the warning, to prevent accidentally closing the entire window when you only intend to close the current tab.
If you want to disable close multiple tabs warnings for when you use this shortcut, uncheck this setting. Deselect this setting if you want to disable close multiple tabs warnings when you use this shortcut.
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