Align Text Perfectly Using Tab Stops

A great way to format information is to use tab stops. In Word, tab stops allow you to quickly and accurately align information on a line in your document. As you discover in this video, Word provides quite a bit of power and flexibility when it comes to tab stops.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:24 Why Use Tab Stops?
01:06 Displaying the Tabs Dialog Box
01:51 Default Tab Stops
02:35 The Five Types of Tab Stops
03:11 Setting a Tab Stop
04:18 Understanding Leader Characters
05:30 Using Tabs in the Document
06:48 Adjusting Tabs Using the Ruler
07:44 Deleting Tab Stops
08:36 Wrapping UP
This video was created at the suggestion of Kathy Rosier and Carol Barlow, two of my WordTips subscribers. I appreciate their idea to create this.
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[@marionfraley8811]

Thanks! This video helped me align 3 columns exactly the way I wanted them to look, but could not figure out using a random search for written instructions and another KZbin video. Very helpful!

[@kathyrosier5585]

Thank you for a clear, concise video! I've been trying to explain tabs to my coworkers for years. Hopefully this will do the trick!

[@wordtips2907]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joeabcobb1]

Very helpful. Brief but covers lots of good info.

[@stevenzwillinger3169]

I've been doing contents pages by hand. This will make life much easier. Thank you.

[@karccrn]

I needed this video, thank you!

[@kburgesss1325]

I like this better than the emails. I will watch a short video more than read the emails. One suggestion ...you can color and/or enlarge the pointer, which will make it easier to follow.

[@wordtips2907]

Thanks for the suggestion, K.

[@fathimaz999]

👌👌

[@GabberHeadzNL]

Dear Mr.WordTips please provide any solution or suggestion on an issue am faced with in my word 2016 the text i'll sample stand like this. Employee X Work Place Y Tasks Z This text is only portion of the complete text that i must add went in the middle of the page on it own ( because every other part that need to be aligned to the left of the page is normally aligned but this one is not and i need it to be on the left so that X,Y and Z can nicely have their bulletins and descriptions? Thank you very much for your kind and unselfish help on this matter at hand,wish you all the best ,warmest regards !

[@karccrn]

I don’t understand what a leader is. I will look to see if you addressed it in another video.

[@isabelmcmanus7011]

it would be better if an actual document was used to see the text overall more for 'Visual' learners