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Tabs dialog
To define a tab stop:
Select a Tab stop and drag the tab stop over the tab ruler or type tab stop ●
position in the Position field.
Define Tab leaders using the Fill Character field if required. ●
Click Set to set up the tab stop. ●
Use Clear All to clear all the tab stops. ●
If you do not set custom tabs, the application sets default left-aligned tabs 
every half-inch.
To apply tabs to selected paragraphs: Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the
Measurements palette. Using the Measurements palette conserves screen
space, and you continuously see the effects updated as you change tab
settings. You can drag tab icons to the ruler or drag tab icons directly into text.
When you are dragging tabs to the ruler or to text, a vertical line displays on
screen to help you decide where to position the tab.
Controlling widow and orphan lines
Widows and orphans are two kinds of typographically undesirable lines.
Traditionally, a widow is defined as the last line of a paragraph that falls at the
top of a column. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the
bottom of a column.
Using the Keep Lines Together feature, you can choose not to break paragraphs,
so that if all the lines in a paragraph do not fit in a column or on a page, the
whole paragraph will flow to the top of the next column or page. Alternatively,
you can specify the number of lines that must be left at the bottom of a column
or box, and at the top of the following column or box, when a paragraph is
broken. Using the Keep with Next ¶ feature, you can keep a paragraph together
with the paragraph that follows it. This lets you keep a subhead together with
the paragraph that follows it, or keep other lines of text that logically go together
from being separated.
It is common to specify Keep with Next ¶ for headline and subhead style sheets
and specify Keep Lines Together (usually with Start and End parameters) for
body text style sheets.
To turn the Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next ¶ features on or off for
selected paragraphs, use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.