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Tabs dialog box overview



Tabs position text at specific horizontal locations in a frame. The default tab settings depend on the Horizontal ruler units setting in the Units & Increments preferences dialog box.

Tabs apply to an entire paragraph. The first tab you set deletes all default tab stops to its left. Subsequent tabs delete all default tabs between the tabs you set. You can set left, center, right, and decimal or special-character tabs.

You set tabs using the Tabs dialog box.

Tabs dialog box

A.
Tab alignment buttons

B.
Tab position

C.
Tab Leader box

D.
Align On box

E.
Tab ruler

F.
Snap above frame

Open the Tabs dialog box

  1. Using the Type tool, click in the text frame.
  2. Choose Type > Tabs.

If the top of the frame is visible, the Tabs dialog box snaps to the current text frame and matches its width to the current column.

Align the Tabs dialog box ruler with your text

  1. Scroll through your document to display the top of the text frame.
  2. Click the magnet icon  on the Tabs dialog box. The Tabs dialog box snaps to the top of the column that includes the selection or the insertion point.