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MS Office 101

MS Word: Changing Default Tab Stops

By default, MS Word gives you tab stops one-half inch apart, which is great for most of us about 99% of the time.

But what about that other 1% of the time?

Is there a quick way to change the tabs to, oh, let's say, one-inch? (Or do you have to double tab your way through the whole document?)

Yep. (Yep, there is a solution. Not, yep to the double tabbing thing.)

Go to the Format menu, Tabs choice.

In the upper left corner look for the Default tabs stops box. Change the number to your required tab interval, click OK and then you're back on your way.

**For those of you who would want this type of change for all your documents you'll need to make the change in the Normal template. Visit our archives at http://www.worldstart.com/archives/index.htm to see the tip on changing the normal template. Check out the April 9, 2002, issue for this one.

Office Tip of the Day

Let's Play Follow The Tab Leader?!!?

Ever have a document where you just needed a blank line before or after something?

Or maybe you were creating a list and needed to get the little dots (……) in between columns of information.

Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to insert all those periods? (I mean, who wants to spend all that time getting just the right number of periods in the line?)

You know there is. The real question is - would you like to know how?

Well, if your answer is yes than this is the tip for you.

What you're looking for is tab leaders.

Tab leaders?

Yes - tab leaders.

They're lines (either solid, dotted or dashed) that fill in the space between the tabbed columns.

The really cool thing about using tab leaders, instead of just hand typing in all the characters, is that during the editing process the line will automatically adjust to the needed length as you add or remove characters before the line.

So, how do we get to the tab leaders?

Well, the first thing you'll need to do is set your tab stop in the correct space.

Got them? Yes - good, let's move on. (If you're wondering how to manually set tabs you could check out our archives at http://www.worldstart.com/archives/index.htm. Look for the April 18, 2002, issue where I covered custom tabs in MS Word.)

Now that your tabs are set, let's get to the leaders.

You'll need to go to the Format menu, Tabs choice.

When the Tab window opens you should have a list of the tabs you've set on the left and then the options you can choose from on the right.

You need to click on a tab from the list on the left - the tab you'd like to set a tab leader.

Now that you've chosen a tab to change take a look at the bottom of the right side. See the Leader section? That's where you have the three line options (plus the choice of None for no line at all).

Click on your choice for that particular tab and then click the Set button. (If you're only setting one tab click OK and you'll save the tab leader and exit the window at the same time. If you have more than one tab to set, use the Set button between making changes to each tab stop - otherwise the changes won't be saved.)

That's it - you're done. Now when you hit the Tab key to get to that particular tab stop you'll get a leader line to fill in the gap.

(Here's another idea for you. I like to use this one - the solid line - when creating blank lines on printed documents. I set a tab at the very right and set a leader line. A couple of quick tab and enter keys and I've got tons of blank lines for my latest masterpiece.)

Have a great day!
~ April