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marmotte1 Posted messages 107 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
marmotte1 Posted messages 107 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello, I can't find how to align text (a paragraph) on a tab stop. I can only get a indent on a tab stop for the first line, but the rest of the text aligns to the left and not automatically to the first line.

Thanks in advance for your help!


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    Nain_Porte_Quoi Posted messages 174 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   42
     

    Hello,

    A paragraph (several lines) cannot align to a tab stop; only the first line uses it.

    To shift an entire paragraph by two (spaces/units) there are two solutions:

    Move the small square under the two triangles in the ruler (if you place the mouse over it, it displays "Left indent" but it isn’t precise.

    More precisely: Home tab, click on the "Paragraph Settings" button (to the right of the "Paragraph" group name) and set the value in "Indent," "Left."

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25220 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 181
       

      Hello,

      The art of "voting" as soon as I write something, have I written anything else?

      In addition and after verification, one can perfectly align whatever we want with the default tab stops.

      Assuming there is a first-line indent, if I want to add one to the paragraph while keeping the previous one, I press Tab at the beginning of the first line.

      If I do not want to keep this first-line indent at the start of the second line.

      If I tab successively, the indent will pass through each of the custom indents defined in the previous paragraphs, but as mentioned, you indeed cannot create a value that does not exist and does not correspond to the default tabulations that are manual.

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      1. marmotte1 Posted messages 107 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   1 > brucine Posted messages 25220 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        thank you!

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    2. marmotte1 Posted messages 107 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   1
       

      Yippee, it works, thanks (the second solution)

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  2. NonoM45 Posted messages 1041 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   5
     

    Hi marmotte1

    Normally, you must select all the lines for which you want the tabulation to be applied.

    We set the tabulation, then we press the [Tab] key

    Best regards

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25220 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 181
       

      Hello,

      The removal of the first line is specified in the paragraph or in the template style, but it is a convention, not an obligation.

      For the rest, we can also move the cursor to the rule or select such a paragraph and, since we know the default tab stop or the one chosen for the template, apply a left indent equal to the number of times the chosen tab value.

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    2. marmotte1 Posted messages 107 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   1
       

      That's what I did, it erases the entire paragraph!

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