WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS

Using the ruler to format paragraphs
The ruler is a tool you can use to indent paragraphs, set margins, or set tabs. Simply move the appropriate pointers on the ruler with your mouse to make adjustments in your document. The ruler contains two triangle pointers stacked on top of each other, creating an hourglass shape. The top triangle indents the first line of a paragraph. The bottom triangle sets tab stops for the rest of the paragraph.

Ruler

If you click inside the ruler, tab stop marks appear, enabling you to specify tabs at any spot throughout your paragraphs. If you right-click (Macintosh users, CTRL+click) inside the ruler, you can view a tab stop menu.

Ruler tabs

Tip The tab marks you click on the ruler appear in numeric form in the Tab stops section, located in the Paragraph Margins tab (third tab from left) in Text - Text Properties.

You can drag both triangles consecutively by dragging the bar connected to the bottom triangle. For example, you may do this to conserve all of your settings, but shift them all to the left one inch.

Ruler tribar

To display the ruler

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Choose View - Ruler to display the horizontal ruler.

You can do the following using the ruler:


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