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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're in our long document file from the Exercise Files folder, and we're going to jump to a previous spread by pressing Option or Alt + Page Up a couple of times. Now, let's select this text frame in the page on the left, and zoom in on it by pressing Cmd or Ctrl + Plus, again, 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. And of course we can't, because tabs are invisible, right? But we can see them if we open the Type menu and choose Show Hidden Characters, all the way down here at the end. Now we can see all these little blue characters inside the text, like this blue paragraph symbol at the end of each line. And the end of story character down here. And in between the words and numbers, there's a little double-headed arrow. That's the tab character. By the way, these invisible characters are blue right now, just like the frame edge, because this text frame is on the blue layer, I…

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