Summary

Unlike the typewriter days, creating tabs in a page-layout application provides various options for aligning text with a tab and creating tab leaders . The Tabs pane (Window ‚ Type & Tables ‚ Tabs, or z +Shift+T or Ctrl+Shift+T) provides an interactive ruler for positioning tabs along with all the other controls you need. Your ultimate success with using the Tabs feature depends on how well you prepared the text in the first place ‚ the key is to position one tab correctly rather than entering several tabs to achieve the correct placement.

To create tables in InDesign, you use the Table pane (Window ‚ Type & Tables ‚ Table, or Shift+F9) to create the table outline, format cells, merge and split cells , apply colors and ruling lines, and do other complex table editing. You can also convert tabbed text into a table and vice versa.