You should be able to just click in the cell you want the stops in, then
click the bottom edge of the Ruler at the spots where you want the stops
set. You can't "place the curser[sic]" anywhere if there isn't already
content of some sort. Once you have the stops set use the Control key while
you press Tab to go from stop to stop.

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Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
>I have a table at the top of the page that I want to put 3 tabs in so I can
> type in words at the 3 different stops. for some reason no matter what I
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> not working. am I thinking too hard on this?
> any simple 'dummie' instructions?