MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11, Use Manual

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Setting tabs, indents, and margins
Tabs, indents, and margins can help you to control text formatting. In addition to setting these
elements, you can position text relative to left, right, top, or bottom text block edges. You can also
adjust spacing between paragraphs.
To set tabs, you must display the text ruler. For more information, see “Selecting text” on
page 238.
Setting tabs
You can align text by using default tabs or by adding tabs. You can also add tab leaders, which are
repeating characters (such as dots) that fill the space between tabbed elements. You can create a
custom leader using a character of your choosing.
Default tabs left-align at 1/2-inch intervals, regardless of the unit of measure for the document.
When you place a new tab, the default tabs to the left of the new tab are deleted. You can select
from five kinds of tabs on the text ruler: left-align, right-align, center-align, decimal-align,
and wrapping tabs.
You can track tab placement with a vertical line in the text block as you drag a tab on the ruler.
Right-align tab
Left-align tab
Center-align tab
Decimal-align tab
Wrapping tab
First-line indent marker
Left indent marker
Default tab marker Right indent marker