Function: Press the tab key once, and the cursor will automatically locate to the next tab. Within the width of a tab, adding or deleting text will not affect the text position in the next tab.

The function of tabs (also known as tab stops) is to vertically align text by column without using a table. Common applications are list, simple list and so on. It can also be used to make the header and footer equal to one line, with several alignment positions.

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Other applications

A, make the header.

There are often some tables with the tabulator on the left and the tabulation date on the right under the title. Generally, people may be accustomed to using spaces to separate them, that is, after entering the tabulator or several spaces, enter the tabulation date. This is more troublesome and not conducive to adjustment.

You can insert a right-aligned TAB in the position of the tabulation date, so that after entering the tabulator, just press Tab and the cursor will jump to the last position and enter the tabulation date.

B. Make a list

We often need to print some documents, such as lists and recipes. Because the names are different in length and even mixed in Chinese and English, it is difficult to align columns with spaces. Here we can simply set a few tabs that are aligned in the center, press the TAB key to enter the next name after entering the name, press the Enter key after entering a line, and so on, so that we can easily align the list.

After all the lists are entered, you can also select the whole list and adjust the list by dragging the tabs on the ruler, which is very convenient.

Creative method

Taking Word20 10 software as an example, this paper introduces the method of creating and deleting tabs on the horizontal ruler of Word window.

Step 1, open the Word20 10 document window, click the tab type button on the leftmost side of the horizontal ruler, and select different types of tabs. Word20 10 contains five different tabs, namely, left tab, center tab, right tab, decimal tab and vertical tab.

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

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