: Is there something in Illustrator that resembles tabs/tab-stops in MS Word? I'm using Illustrator (CS5) to create a menu for a restaurant. In a word doc, I have a tab at the end of a textcolumn.

I'm using Illustrator (CS5) to create a menu for a restaurant.

In a word doc, I have a tab at the end of a textcolumn. It's a 'right'-aligned tabstop. So my text resembles this:

food 100 $
wine 100.000 $
happiness 42 $

Pretty basic. How do I get this in Illustrator?

Right now I have a word document that I want to copy in Illustrator since I want to step up my game. I know how to work with Illustrator, the basics, but not much about text-aligning/layouting.

I know that it's not a bad idea to use inDesign but I neither possess the skill nor the software. It would surprise me if this is not possible in Illustrator.
If there are any obvious/easy ways to get a word doc + fonts/layout into Illustrator, I'd be happy to hear 'em.

Thanks.

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@Shanna688

there is indeed a right indent tab feature. the tab stop however needs to be set to an absolute value — so when you adjust the size of the text box you'll also need to modify the tab stop.

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@Welton168

Use your tabs, then open the paragraph window and adjust the left indent. It will bring the start of the line in, but won't move the tab forward. Unfortunatley you can only do the the first tab.

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@Sent7350415

You can use tabs or columns to achieve that effect.

TABS

Open your Tabs palette using Window -> Type -> Tabs (Ctrl + Shift + T)

COLUMNS

Create an area Text object add columns via Type -> Area Type Options...

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