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Using tab stops and indents

Using tab stops and indents - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Using tab stops and indents

Another common type of paragraph formatting we often see involves the use of tabs and indents, and that's what we're going to talk about now as we continue working with our No Obstacles HR document. If you jump into this lesson, you'd like to get caught up, you can open up No Obstacles HR5 in the Chapter4 folder of those Exercise Files. We're actually going to move up to page 2. We've seen this before. This is our customary letter that appears at the beginning of our document, and you'll notice we have several paragraphs here. Well, there is a type of formatting that involves indenting the first line of a paragraph. Now, in the old days, we just clicked at the beginning, hit the Tab key on the keyboard, and that would insert a tab. Now, what happens here in Word is a little bit different. You'll notice, first of all, AutoCorrect is kicking in, and something is happening here. If we click the dropdown, we have the option to change it back to a tab, but that's what we hit, so what's…

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