People can also use the space bar to adjust the position of characters, but it is too much trouble to knock one key at a time, and there is no guarantee that it will be arranged regularly. The use of tab stops can overcome the above shortcomings. Therefore, when people give answers to multiple-choice questions; When printing a menu; When writing the price list; When arranging formulas; When writing a document directory; When the unit that wrote the official document signed it; The time when the document is signed or dated; ..... all need to use tab stops.
Q2。 How many kinds of tab stops are there? What is its relationship with tabs? According to the Word help, there are five kinds of tab stops, which are represented by symbols respectively. These symbols are called tabs. The labels of these five tab stops are:
Left alignment is to arrange characters on the right side of tabs; Right alignment is to arrange characters to the left of tabs; Centering refers to arranging characters on both sides of tabs; Vertical alignment is to insert a vertical line in a paragraph; Decimal alignment, of course, is to align the decimal points neatly. In fact, in addition to these five tabs, there is also a default tab, which is the gray arrow to the right after pressing the "Tab" key. By default, when you press the Tab key once, Word will insert a tab in the document with an interval of 0.74 cm. So this tab itself can also standardize the position of characters.
However, in order to ensure that this default tab appears in the text, you need to make the following settings:? (1) Use Command Tools → Options to bring up the options window; On the View tab, select Tab or All in the Format Markup option. Q3。 How to make a menu with default labels? By pressing the "Tab" key to bring up the tab, the related contents can be separated and aligned automatically. When printing, the label will not be displayed. This is a very standard recipe. This method is slightly better than using the space bar. However, it is best to standardize the position of characters by setting tab stops as follows. The so-called tab stop setting is to place tabs on the horizontal ruler to adjust the position of each character or text entered in the main window. There are two ways to set tab stops on the horizontal ruler. One is to click with the mouse; The other is to use the precise setting method of menu commands. You can set one or more tab stops on the horizontal ruler as needed.
Click with the mouse to set the tab stop: first, start with the small box at the intersection of the horizontal ruler and the vertical ruler (see the upper left corner below. Also called tab selection button), click to find the tab you need, and then click the horizontal ruler to put the tab on the ruler. The following four tabs are all set in this way. In the tab selector, in addition to the five aligned tabs, there are "first line indentation" (the one above the ruler) and "left indentation" (the one below the ruler). In fact, they also adjust the position of the characters.
How to set the tab stop with the menu command: use the format → tab stop command to bring up the tab stop dialog box (see the figure below), and then select the tab stop position, alignment and leader. The so-called "faucet" is a small point, thin line and so on. To be added before the character. Use the menu to set tab stops. After the settings are completed, you must click the "Settings" and "OK" buttons before the settings will take effect. The so-called "effective" means that the tabs you set appear on the horizontal ruler.
If you need to set more than one tab stop, just click the Set button instead of the OK button after setting each tab stop. Don't press the "OK" key until all the tab stops are "set". After pressing the OK key, the corresponding tab will appear on the horizontal ruler. In fact, double-clicking the horizontal ruler can also bring up the tab stop dialog box. When you double-click the ruler blank, the position of the tab stop is in characters; When you double-click the digital marker of the horizontal ruler, the position of the tab stop is in centimeters.