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Tabs and paragraph formatting

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niponki

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Mar 14, 2006
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Hello,

New to this forum so I guess a hello and itroduction is due to all. I have been using InDesign for about a year now and completely love it. I use it for almost everything from school work to work work.

Anyway, I have a pretty simple question here regarding text tabs and paragraph formatting. This may seem very simple (and I am sure it is) which is probrably why I could not find it on the FAQ and Search.

Anyway, I would like to have a paragraph style that will format my text like this:

*TEXT: [tab]fl;;laj;alsjkdfal;sjkdfal;fjdlafjlafjdjk
[tab][tab] daslfjlajdl;ajdlajakda;sdfjk;alsfj
[tab][tab] alsdjflasfjlajd.

How do I make the indents for the lines below the first one? For some reason, this function has always stumped me. blah... Thanks in advance for the help!

Peter
 
Select the text. Open the tabs palette. There are two black triangles on the left of the ruler. Move them separately to get the desired effect. Add a tab marker right above the bottom triangle. Place your cursor after 'TEXT:' and press the tab key.
 
And, once you've done that for one paragraph and seen how easy it is, don't forget to create a new paragraph style in the styles tab if you plan on using that format over and over again :)

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Awesome, thanks for the help you guys. I have finally conquored the problem and have my document full of paragraph styles for my tabs. Wow, a world of difference.

Thanks again,

~Peter
 
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