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Word Lesson 5 Tabs

All about Tabs. Tabs stops are useful for creating tables or aligning numbered items. Some terms may be used more than once.

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Left Tab stopLeft-aligns selected text at the point indicated on the horizontal ruler. This is the default tab.
Right Tab stopRight-aligns selected text at the point indicated on the horizontal ruler. This is useful for aligning page numbers in a table of contents.
Center Tab stopCenters selected text at the point indicated on the horizontal ruler. This is used with titles and announcements.
Decimal Tab stopAligns selected text on the decimal point at the point indicated on the horizontal ruler. This is helpful when preparing price lists, invoices, and menus.
Leaderssolid, dotted, or dashed lines that fill the blank space before a tab setting.
Clear buttonallows you to clear a tab listed in the "Tab stop position" box
Tabsmark the place where the insertion point will stop when you press the Tab key.
Clear Alluse to clear all the tabs listed in the "Tab stop position" box.
LeadersOften used in tables of contents.

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