The horizontal tab character is the Tab key.

The function is: press the tab key once, the cursor will automatically locate the position of the next tab character, and within the width range of a tab character, adding or deleting text will not affect the next tab character. text position in .

The function of the tab character (also called a tab stop) is to vertically align text in columns without using a table. More common applications include lists, simple lists, etc. It can also be used to create headers, footers, and other lines with several alignment positions on the same line.

Extended information:

Other applications

A. Make headers.

There are often tables with the producer on the left and the date on the right below the title. Generally, you may be accustomed to using spaces to separate, that is, after entering the tabulator or entering a number of spaces, then enter the tabulation date. This is more troublesome and not conducive to adjustment.

You can insert a right-aligned tab character at the position of the tabulation date. After entering the tabulator, just press TAB and the cursor will jump to the last position to enter the tabulation date. That’s it.

B. Making lists

We often have to type documents such as lists and recipes. Since the names are of different lengths and even mixed in Chinese and English, it is difficult to align the columns with spaces. Here we can simply set a few center-aligned tabs and press TAB after entering the first name. Enter the next name, press Enter after entering a line, and so on, you can easily align the list.

After entering the entire list, you can also select the entire list and adjust the list by dragging the tab character on the ruler, which is very convenient.

Creation method

Take Word2010 software as an example to introduce the method of creating and deleting tab characters on the horizontal ruler of the Word window:

Step 1, open In the Word2010 document window, click the tab type button at the far left of the horizontal ruler to select different types of tabs. Word2010 contains 5 different tab characters, namely left-aligned tab character, centered tab character, right-aligned tab character, decimal point-aligned tab character, and vertical line-aligned tab character.

Step 2: Click the left mouse button anywhere on the horizontal ruler to create the current type of tab character. Dragging a tab character out of the ruler will delete the tab character.

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