Tabs

    Selecting Tabs from the Text menu activates a dialog box that 
 allows you to add or remove tab stops for the current paragraph. The 
 current paragraph is the one that contains the highlighted text, if there 
 is highlighted text. Otherwise the current paragraph is the one that 
 contains the text insertion bar. You can have up to 16 tab stops defined 
 for a given paragraph
    When you add a tab stop you can specify up to three attributes for it. 
    These are:
 •
Alignment: Alignment can either be Left, Right, or Center.
 •
Leading Character Sequence: The lead character sequence can 
     be any valid sequence of characters, including a space.
 •
Position: The position can be set at any location on the horizontal 
     ruler. The alignment of the tab stop determines how text is aligned 
     to it:
     •
Left alignment causes the first character of text typed at the 
         tab stop to be located to the tab stop position. As additional 
         characters are typed in, the text segment is expanded to the right 
         or the tab stop.
     •
Right alignment causes the last  character of text typed at the 
         tab stop to be flush to the tab stop position. As additional 
         characters are typed in, the text segment is expanded to the left 
         of the tab stop.
     •
Center alignment causes the text segment to be centered with 
         respect to the tab stop position. As additional characters are 
         typed in, the text segment is expanded both to the left and the 
         right of the tab stop position,  so that the text segment remains 
         centered with respect to it.
    The alignment of a tab stop is set by clicking and holding on the down 
 facing arrowhead to the right of the Alignment display box in the 
 Tabs dialog window. This activates a pop-up menu with the three 
 options indicated on it.  Drag to the desired selection and release. 
 The selected alignment now appears in the display box.
    The lead character sequence is used to fill white space between the 
 end of a text segment at a tab stop and the text segment directly to the 
 left of it. You specify the lead character sequence by typing it directly 
 into the text box to the right of Leader in the Tabs dialog window, 
 and entering return or tab. 
 Alternatively, you can activate a pop-up menu by clicking and holding 
 on the arrowhead to the right of Leader, and then drag to and select 
 one of the prespecified lead character sequences.
    The position attribute of a tab stop is specified by typing the value 
 into the text box to the right of Position. The unit of measure for the 
 position the same as that being used for the horizontal ruler.