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You can also select tabs from the ruler. Clicking the Tab Selection button
changes tab styles from left, center, right, and decimal. Once you make your
selection, you adjust the corresponding tab in the ruler or in the Paragraph
dialog box.
OK Closes the editor and saves any changes that you made.
Options Displays a list of additional text options. See
Text Editor Shortcut
Menu
on page 764.
Columns Displays the column flyout menu, which provides three column
options: No Columns, Static Columns, and Dynamic columns. See
Columns
menu
on page 779.
MText Justification Displays the MText Justification menu with nine
alignment options available.
Paragraph Displays the Paragraph dialog box. See the
Paragraph dialog box
on page 778 for a list of the options.
Left, Center, Right, Justified and Distributed Sets the justification and
alignment for the left, center, or right text boundaries of the current or selected
paragraph. Spaces entered at the end of a line are included and affect the
justification of a line.
Line Spacing Displays suggested line spacing options or the Paragraph dialog
box. Line spacing is set in the current or selected paragraph.
NOTE Line spacing is the distance between the bottom of the upper line and the
top of the lower line of text in a multiple line paragraph.
The predefined options are:
■ 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x, or 2.5x: Sets the line spacing at .5x increments in multiline
text.
■ More: Displays the Paragraph dialog box, which provides additional options.
■ Clear Paragraph Spacing: Removes line spacing settings from the selected or
current paragraph. The paragraph defaults to the mtext space setting.
Additional options in the Paragraph dialog box:
■ Exact: Defines the space with an arbitrary unit value the user specifies.
Changing text height will not affect line spacing.
■ Multiple: Instead of assigning a value to line spacing, you specify spacing
according to text height. When text height is not consistent in one line,
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