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Setting tabs and tab stops

Setting tabs and tab stops - InDesign Tutorial

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Setting tabs and tab stops

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- [Instructor] We are in our long document file from the exercise files folder, and we're going to jump to a previous page by pressing Option or Alt, Page Up a couple of times. Now I've placed tabs in this story to separate the numbers from the text, but I can't see the tab characters. Of course you can't, because tabs are invisible, right? But we can see them if we open the Type menu, and choose Show Hidden Characters, way down here at the bottom. Now we see all these little blue characters, like this blue paragraph symbol at the end of each line. And, between the words and the numbers, you see this double angle bracket, and that is a symbol for a tab character. I often like working with these hidden characters turned on, because it shows exactly what's in my text frame, and that's especially true when I'm working with tabs, because I need to know where those tabs are to set them up right. So there's a problem here…

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