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Setting tabs and tab stops

Setting tabs and tab stops - InDesign Tutorial

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Setting tabs and tab stops

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- [Instructor] We are in our long document file from the exercise files folder, and we are going to jump to a previous page by pressing option or alt page up a couple of times. Here in this table of contents, I've placed tabs in the story to separate the numbers from the text, but I can't see the tab characters. And of course you can't because tabs are invisible, right? But we can see them if we open the type menu and then choose show hidden characters down here at the bottom. Now we see these little blue characters, like this blue paragraph symbol, or in between the word and the number, you'll see a little double angle bracket. That's the symbol for a tab character. By the way, these invisible characters are blue right now just like the frame edges, because this text frame is on a blue layer. I often like working with these hidden characters turned on because it shows exactly what's in my frame. And that's especially true…

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