Welcome to Intro to Office 2013, video project number 14.
Hey, in this video, we got to talk about tabs.
Now I've already opened up a blank Word document
and saved it with the name, fun with tabs.
If I hit F12, you can see the file path up here.
It's the same file path we've been using all class for Word.
I'm saving it to Word class notes, escape there.
Now, tab.
What's a tab?
Well, we've all seen the tab key.
Tab.
0.5 is the default tab.
And watch this-- when I hit enter,
tab-- it looks like as I hit enter,
the tab always carries forward.
It's always 0.5.
Now in a couple of videos ago, we did our research paper,
and we learned that we don't have to do tab for a research
paper because we can do what's called a first line indent.
But for some things, like for business letters,
other documents, you have to set a tab
at some other position besides 0.5.
Our business letter in our next video--
we'll set it to 3.5-- so I'm going to hit
enter, and I want to show you how to set tabs.
And then there's a bunch of different types of tabs.
Now tab is a paragraph level formatting.
So if I go up to the paragraph group on the home ribbon,
and click our dialogue launcher, I see the tabs button.
I click it and there's tabs.
Recently, someone at YouTube posted a keyboard for tab.
I've been looking for this for years.
It's Alt, O,T. Oh, that is amazing.
Now there's the default setting.
There's left, center, right decimal and bar.
And we'll look at each one of those.
Let's set a tab stop-- 3.5.
I'm going to click set.
Click OK and now watch this.
Tab-- when I hit tab-- look what happens up there.
There's a little left mark.
That means the tab has been set at 3.5.
Now watch this-- paragraph level formatting-- why?
Because when I hit enter, tab.
So it carries forward.
The reason it carries forward is usually, like in a letter,
you'll have the date, and then your signature and your name
all with the same tab stop.
Now let's type, so the dog went out to lunch.
That's from the left, so we set a 3.5 tab, left.
Now let's look at center-- Alt, O, T.
I'm going to click center, set.
We don't need to clear it.
Now it will replace it if I click.
Click OK.
Now when I hit tab, if I type, it's centered right there.
Enter, Alt, O, T, let's do right, set, OK, tab.
Now when I type, oh from the right.
Now, what about decimal and bar?
Enter, Alt,O T, decimal-- now decimal does something totally
amazing.
I'm going to click OK and watch when I hit tab-- 12, 12.23,
enter, tab-- something and then a bunch of decimals.
The decimals are lined up down the middle.
Now let's see if I can scroll down here.
Alt,O, T. Let's look at bar, and bar does something similarly
surprising if you've never used it.
Click OK.
Oh, it puts a line there.
Now watch this.
You have to set another tab, and I'm not
going to set it in the box.
I'm going to come up here and use my ruler,
so I'm going to set it at 4.
And that's a left.
In fact, if we Alt,O T, we can see that it is then added.
There's that 4.
Now watch this tab.
Oh, it's like a bar down the middle and so we start typing.
And every time we hit enter, the bar comes down
and if I hit tab I go back to 4, paragraph level formatting
being carried forward.
Control, B. Alright, I'm going to hit enter, Alt, O,T--
whoops, Alt, O, T, clear.
Now just for kicks, we looked at all of these.
A leader, as you could imagine-- if I select right and this when
I click OK, Tab.
And then I could do my typing.
Enter.
What's coming up the screen here?
Tab.
Enter.
Let's look at one other thing.
We saw how we set a tab up here, so down here-- Alt, O,
T-- I'm going to clear it.
So you can set your tab and watch this.
It will give you a little pop-up.
So that's left, then there's center, right, decimal, bar.
And there's even, we remember from our research paper,
that is a first line indent.
That is a hanging indent and then back to left.
So if I wanted to come up here and set a first line indent--
notice my cursor is right there.
So when I set a first line indent at 1, now when
I type and hit enter, all of the paragraphs
are set at first line indent, one inch.
So you could actually set whatever tab
you select over here by using the ruler.
Alright, that was a lot about tabs.
In our next video, we'll do a business letter
and will use a few tabs.
Alright, see you next video.