From the course: QuarkXPress 2016 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Working with tabs

Working with tabs - QuarkXPress Tutorial

From the course: QuarkXPress 2016 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Working with tabs

- [Voiceover] Working with tabs is an essential part of typesetting. Tabs allow you to control the spacing and alignment of text within a line, and QuarkXPress gives you plenty of options for customizing this spacing with its tab controls. Let's check 'em out. In our exercise file we have a list of various names for a particular type of cheese, and we could certainly format something like this quite nicely with a table, but we can also do it with tabs. First of all, make sure that your invisibles are showing, which you can find in the View menu by choosing Invisibles or pressing Command or Control + i So with invisibles on, I can see that each line in this list starts with a tab, and there's a tab over here between each country name and cheese name. If you don't customize the tab stops, by default they'll all be left-aligned tabs spaced half an inch apart, so all these lines start half an inch from the left indent, which in this case is the same as the text box since the left indent…

Contents