Changing tabs

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Robin Chapple - 31 Oct 2005 21:39 GMT

On a regular basis I inherit a membership report as an RTF file which
has been exported from Access.

This I use to prepare a hard copy directory with limited horizontal
space.

Fields which were side by side in the Access report are separated by a
tab. This forces a line wrap in many entries.

I need to be able to change the size of the tab over the whole of the
many pages. I imagine by selecting the whole text and some format
command.

Perhaps there is a way to make the Publisher tab size smaller.

How do I do that?

Robin Chapple

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drc023 - 31 Oct 2005 22:45 GMT

The procedure is simple. If you want to apply the same tab stops to all
fields you will need to select all text - Ctrl-A - and then adjust the tabs.
The easiest way to do this is to highlight all the text and then move the
tab stop sliders that appear on the slider bar for the text frame. If there
are no sliders showing, they can be added by left clicks on the slider bar.
You can also set tabs with the Format/Tabs command, but I find the above
much easier. In all cases, the existing text will need to be highlighted
prior to setting any tabs.

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Ron

> On a regular basis I inherit a membership report as an RTF file which
> has been exported from Access.
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> Robin Chapple

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Robin Chapple - 31 Oct 2005 23:11 GMT

Thanks Ron,

That was the answer, I used the slider method. i had already tries
the Format/Tags and failed,

Robin

>The procedure is simple. If you want to apply the same tab stops to all
>fields you will need to select all text - Ctrl-A - and then adjust the tabs.
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>much easier. In all cases, the existing text will need to be highlighted
>prior to setting any tabs.

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