Using and Removing “Tab”
First I will just clarify what a “Tab” is:
A “Tab” stop is a place on the horizontal ruler that indicates how far to indent text or where a column of text is to begin.
With “Tabs” you can align text to the left or right, center or align a decimal point.
“Tabs” can be inserted before or after the text we type.
“Tabs” may vary in the different sections of our “Document”.
For example, a paragraph, can have two left tabs, while the next paragraph may have none.

The “Tab” button is found on the left side of the horizontal ruler.

Clicking on the “Tab” button changes the type of “Tab”
We have four different tabs:

	left tab, aligns text to the left
	centering tab, centers the text
	right tab, aligns text to the right
	decimal tab, aligns from their decimal numbers

If you do not know which “Tab” is selected, you can always move the mouse pointer, it displays a small window containing the tip on the appropriate “Tab”
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To insert a “Tab” , we first select the type of “Tab”, and then click the ruler at the point we wish.

To remove a “Tab”, we click and drag the “Tab” to the bottom of our “Document”.
To remove all the tabs from our “Document” we click on “Format” (“Format“) – “Tabs” … in the menu bar and click the “Clear All” (“Clear All“) button in the “Tabs” dialog.

To change the place of a “Tab”, we click and drag the “Tab” to the correct position on the ruler.
All text that we enter below, will start at this new position.

Add tabs in fill characters

We can fill characters between our “Tabs”.
These special “Tabs” are used to provide a dotted line between the two words to be inserted.
A good example of this is an Index page of a book.

We can customize each “Tab” in our “Document”.
Click on “Format” (“Format“) – “Tabs” on the menu bar.
In the dialog that appears, select our “Tab”, and choose one symbol (“Leader“), Click “Setup” (“Setup“) And click OK

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