| A | B |
| Left Tab | Default tab alignment; all text lines up with first character and shift to right. |
| Center Tab | Text centered using tab position |
| Right Tab | Last character lines up at tab position and shift to left. |
| Decimal Tab | Text characters align as for right tab or to left of decimal; characters shift to right after decimal typed. |
| Bar Tab | Separator character between each column. |
| Ruler | Used as a guide for best guess where tabs should be placed. Offers a quick and easy way of adjusting the indents by using the indent markers. |
| Left Indent | Indents from the left margin and often used with list. |
| Right Indent | Indents from the right margin and often used with left indents for quotations. |
| First Line Indent | Only the first line of the paragraph indents from the left margin. |
| Hanging Indent | First line lines up at the margin and the rest of the paragraph is hanging at the noted indent marker; commonly used for lists or bibliographies, of bulleted and numbered lists. |
| Apply Bullets | If there is no priority on the listed items. |
| Apply Numbers | To show a priority in the list. |
| Bullets and Numbering | Ways to emphasize or separate list information. |