How to choose an alignment for tabs using options for line spacing of Word 2010

Microsoft has recently launched the advanced version of their text editor as Microsoft Office Word 2010. It comes with the full Microsoft office suite. Including the entire necessary feature, many innovative features are included too. The categorization of the options is very systematically done to provide an ease of access to them. Various options related to customization of text are included in the “Home” tab in the Word 2010 ribbon. Among them one option is for choosing an alignment for tabs using options for line spacing. The option allows the user to choose an alignment for tab spaces in the word document using the options for line spacing. It’s totally up to a user to apply customizations according to his/her needs and requirements. However, if you don’t know how it is done you can follow the under noted steps for choosing an alignment for tabs using options for line spacing of Word 2010.

Steps to choose an alignment for tabs using options for line spacing of Word 2010: -

1. Click the “Home” tab from the Word ribbon to activate its sub-options with in the ribbon itself.



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2. Find the “Line and Paragraph Spacing” button in the section labeled as “Paragraph” in Home tab. After that click the button for “Line and Paragraph Spacing” and then again click on option “Line Spacing Options…” which you will find in the list which gets activated after you click the “Line and Paragraph Spacing” button, to open dialog box for “Paragraph”.



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3. Ensure that the “Indent and Spacing” tab is activated in the “Paragraph” dialog box, if not activated then click on it to activate and then click on the button labeled as “Tabs…” located at the bottom part of the “Paragraph” dialog box, which will invoke the “Tabs” dialog box



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4. Click the radio button of the alignment you would like to use for the tabs from the “Alignment” section of the “Tabs” dialog box and then click on “OK” button of the “Tabs” dialog box to close it.



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After all the steps are traced successfully, now you know how an alignment for the tabs is chosen using options for line spacing of Word 2010.

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