Wow Ron, That was very helpful!
I'd already had the basic idea of what the sliders were but I'd never used
the tabs. Ron: "there is a difference between using the enter key which will
cause a new paragraph and just getting a new line which can be done by
shift+enter." I can see that there is a difference in how they get marked
but they both create the same effect at least in the instance where I tried
them, so the advantage of one method over another still eludes me.
Here what I've got figured out:
You can add as many tab stops as you want and they'll have no effect unless
you place the cursor in front of text and press tab or you are on a line of
text which has existing tabs. To remove a tab stop from the ruler you simply
drag it off. A tab stop can not be dragged off when moving in a straight
line up or down from the original position. Pressing tab moves the text from
left to right. Repeated tabbing moves the text to the next available tab
stop unless the default tab settings is greater. If another tab stop is not
available it moves the text over by the default tab setting. If you set the
default tab setting to a small value like .014 (smallest setting) and press
tab at the beginning of a line it will move the text over the first time but
each subsequent press will insert tab markers in the empty space to the
right of the previous line until there in no more room, then it starts
moving the text over on the original line again. If you are on a line with
an existing tab and add a new tab stop the existing tab will adjust right or
left to the new tab stop. If there is already a tab stop for a tabbed line
adding a new tab stop to the left of the original will move the text to that
position but adding a tab to the right of the original does nothing for that
line but will adjust the tabs for previous lines if they exist. If you
remove a tab stop the existing tab will be resized to the default tab
setting from the beginning of the line. If you have three tab stops for a
line, have text tabbed over to third position, and remove the first or
middle tab stop the text will move to the default tab stop value right of
the third tab stop. If you have more than one tab stop and remove the last
one the text will move the default tab setting to right of the previous tab
stop and sometimes it just moves it to the tab stop. Sometimes adding a tab
to a line will cause the tab of the following line to be filled in with text
instead of just moving over. If you move the cursor to a new paragraph all
the tab stops from the previous paragraph disappear until you return the
cursor. I've adjusted the default tab setting and Publisher sometimes still
uses the previous setting until switching to a new paragraph, sometimes
adjusts all of the existing tabs, and sometimes it only adjusted the first
tab in the paragraph. If the move both rulers icon is selected newly created
tab stops will all look like that icon (upside down T's instead of L's). I
have no idea why it does this.
If you have a paragraph marker at the end of a line of text, text on the
second line, and cause a word wrap from the first line, the second line will
completely move to the third line instead of consecutively following the
wrapped text and paragraph marker. If you press enter on any consecutively
following text after the number "1." of a numbered list, all of the text
behind the cursor is switched to next line indented under the "1." and a
number "2." is inserted at the beginning, unless a paragraph marker was
anywhere between your cursor and the number "1." This doesn't work with any
number other than one. Publisher help doesn't explain all the parameters and
exceptions to it's rules and functions so it is easy to be confused when
they don't act predictably, which is quite often. I think I prefer to just
add spaces.
