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desired character format (see chapter “Character formatting”, beginning on page
63).
Tabs
A tab stop is a kind of “jump target” that you can use to position the text cursor at a
specific point within a line by inserting a tab. Tabs help you to compose, for
example, tabular reports.
To work with tabs, two steps are required:
1. Define the tab stops with the Format > Tabs command. This command is used
to specify the positions for which tabs will move the cursor.
2. Now you can use the (Tab) key to make the text cursor jump from one tab stop
to the next – this is called inserting tabs.
Note: Although the tab key on most keyboards is marked with (_ÿ_), the legend
(Tab) is used for representing tabs in this manual to distinguish tabs from the
direction keys.
For detailed information on using tabs, see the pages that follow.
Using tabs
By default, tab stops are preset at 0.5 inch intervals. However, these preset tab
stops are merely relics from the era of the typewriter, and you are by no means
limited to them.
You can define different tab stops for every paragraph of the document.
To set tab stops, proceed as follows:
1. Place the text cursor in the paragraph of interest (or select multiple paragraphs
to be modified).
2. Invoke the command Format > Tabs.
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