: Creating tabs/spaces in-line between Character & Paragraph Styles? so I'm typesetting a play for an assignment and cannot for the life of me figure out how I can get a tab space between the

@Cooney243

Just like the other members, I'm not sure what you mean by "going through the document manually". There is probably a way to automate and set up your document in a nice way, but you need to show us how is your document set.

That said, the easiest way to set up your paragraph style is to combine Left Indent and negative First Line Indent. Use same value (in my example: 30 and -30). This way, applying this unique paragraph style will do the job if it uses this pattern: some text (optional) - TAB sign - some text. No need to set up tab position or to use "Indent to this point".

I also suggest you use a nested style Up to tab character to apply character style. So you won't have to apply it manually. See example below:

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@Nimeshi706

Seems to me just a tab stop, which matches a left indent, so you can use either/or.



This way, hitting the tab pushes content 10p0 from the left. Or setting a paragraph style moves all the text 10p0 from the left.

Set this up as 2 paragraph styles and then it is a matter of assigning the right style based upon need.

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@Connie430

I'm not sure what you mean by "so that I don't have to go through the entire document manually". If you mean having to insert a tab for each line, there is a nifty little option called "Indent to here" (ctrl + ) which you would need to insert just before "It was 7 minutes after midnight..." and will appear as a little cross.

Example:



Make sure you use line breaks (ctrl + enter) within paragraphs and not paragraph breaks or it will not work. Also, you only need the 2nd tab pictured in the example here to match your example, not the first one.

Note that you can insert your tabs within a paragraph style, also. That will make your document cleaner.

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