User Guide

Chapter 10346
To track tab placement with a vertical line in the text block:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences. Click Text.
2 Select Track Tab Movement with Vertical Line (the default setting) to display a
vertical highlight line in the text block as you move a tab on the text ruler.
Deselect the option to hide the tracking line.
3 Click OK.
Setting paragraph indents, paragraph spacing,
margins, and insets
You set paragraph indents using the text ruler. To set margins, you use the Text
Paragraph inspector or the Object inspector. You can also apply hanging indents, and
hanging punctuation marks, such as quotation marks, outside of paragraph margins.
To set paragraph indents using the text ruler:
1 Using the Text tool, click to set an insertion point where you want to apply
indent settings, or drag to select text.
2 Drag an indent marker from the text ruler to its new location in the area just
above the numbers, as follows:
• Drag a first-line indent marker to set the indent of the first line independently
of the rest of the paragraph.
• Drag the left indent marker to set the left paragraph margin.
First-line indent marker
Left indent marker
Right indent marker