1 00:00:06,950 --> 00:00:09,090 Hi there. In this video, 2 00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:11,310 we're going to look at tabs; and in our case, 3 00:00:11,310 --> 00:00:12,390 there's tabs in here, 4 00:00:12,390 --> 00:00:15,780 but we want them to go from this to this. 5 00:00:15,780 --> 00:00:18,000 We're also going to add leader dots as well. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,090 Let's go and do that now in this tutorial. 7 00:00:21,090 --> 00:00:23,790 To make tabs work, first thing you need to do, 8 00:00:23,790 --> 00:00:26,040 if you're zoomed in and you can't see the top, 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,600 see this is the top of my textbook, 10 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,270 if I can't see that, 11 00:00:29,265 --> 00:00:31,305 it's going to go a little bit wrong. 12 00:00:31,305 --> 00:00:33,425 I'm going to go up to Type, and go to Tabs. 13 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:36,410 I love InDesign, I am a fan boy of InDesign. 14 00:00:36,405 --> 00:00:38,795 Tabs is probably the hardest thing to use in here and 15 00:00:38,790 --> 00:00:41,600 probably not really greatly implemented. 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:42,950 I like the way we do it, 17 00:00:42,950 --> 00:00:45,660 we just ties it into this ruler on the top. 18 00:00:45,660 --> 00:00:47,750 But anyway, Type, hit Tabs. 19 00:00:47,745 --> 00:00:50,975 Because I can't see the top of that box, watch what happens. 20 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:53,670 It just randomly pace in the middle of the page, 21 00:00:53,670 --> 00:00:55,520 and I actually connected to the Type box. 22 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,820 You can see how I scroll up a little bit so I can see it, 23 00:00:58,820 --> 00:01:02,740 and you can hit this little magnetic button here and it will stick to the top. 24 00:01:02,735 --> 00:01:04,885 Just make sure you can see the top of the box, 25 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,500 otherwise, it can be really troublesome. 26 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,590 What I'd like to do is with my type tool, 27 00:01:09,590 --> 00:01:12,590 I'm going to highlight all of the bits that I want to work with. 28 00:01:12,590 --> 00:01:15,200 Now there is actually a tab in between these, 29 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,050 that's what the table of contents does for us. 30 00:01:19,045 --> 00:01:21,545 You can see it's lining up, 31 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:24,360 but there is not enough room, so we want to put the tab way out here. 32 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:25,840 I've highlighted it all, 33 00:01:25,835 --> 00:01:28,525 I've gone to my magnetic buttons so it lines up, 34 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,660 and all you need to do is click in this slightly lighter gray area, 35 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:34,490 it's a little bit difficult to explain, 36 00:01:34,490 --> 00:01:36,800 but you can see with my arrow is wiggling back and forth. 37 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,400 I want to click in there once, 38 00:01:38,395 --> 00:01:40,185 and you can see they all align up. 39 00:01:40,185 --> 00:01:41,675 You can move it around, 40 00:01:41,670 --> 00:01:44,400 click and drag it a little bit if it's not in the right place. 41 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,280 One thing you might find is you accidentally, 42 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,890 if you don't click in exactly on 43 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:52,810 that tiny little blue arrow and you click just here, you can see you get two of them. 44 00:01:52,805 --> 00:01:54,805 You end up playing around with two of them, 45 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:55,970 and if you want to get rid of one, 46 00:01:55,970 --> 00:01:57,950 just click on it, hit Delete on your keyboard. 47 00:01:57,950 --> 00:02:00,360 Don't do that. Click, hold, 48 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,050 and drag it off, and it will disappear. 49 00:02:03,045 --> 00:02:05,105 The next thing we need to do is, 50 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:08,210 I want to mess around with say the, 51 00:02:08,214 --> 00:02:10,544 it's a little bit hard because these numbers are so far away, 52 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:11,760 I want to add some dots, well, 53 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,020 like we saw at the beginning of this video. 54 00:02:14,015 --> 00:02:15,385 They're called leader dots. 55 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:18,950 What you do is, you highlight all of our texts like we have, 56 00:02:18,950 --> 00:02:23,510 you need to make sure that the tab you're working with is highlighted. Mine is not. 57 00:02:23,510 --> 00:02:25,450 Click on this, it goes blue. 58 00:02:25,450 --> 00:02:27,410 Then where it says, Leader, 59 00:02:27,405 --> 00:02:29,955 you put in a full stop or a period, 60 00:02:29,955 --> 00:02:32,355 hit Enter, and you've got these leader dots that 61 00:02:32,355 --> 00:02:35,395 rush across the page to join up the number. 62 00:02:35,390 --> 00:02:36,680 You can have other things, 63 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,290 I can put an underscore. 64 00:02:38,285 --> 00:02:44,605 Now I find this a little bit troublesome on the Pro and I still can't make it work. 65 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,900 Now I think this might be just my version, I hope it is. 66 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:52,190 I'm hoping you just delete this period and type in an underscore. 67 00:02:52,185 --> 00:02:53,345 What's happening for me is, 68 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:55,910 it's deleting all my text. Why is that happening? 69 00:02:55,905 --> 00:02:57,105 I'm not quite sure. 70 00:02:57,105 --> 00:02:59,815 I've played around with this a couple of times and it's still doing it, 71 00:02:59,810 --> 00:03:02,240 I'm sure with the next fix it'll be fine. 72 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,000 Let's try it one more time, I'm going to close down the tabs. 73 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,210 I'm leaving this in here because the head tabs are a little bit fiddly, 74 00:03:08,210 --> 00:03:09,590 and at the moment they're are extra fiddly. 75 00:03:09,590 --> 00:03:11,540 If you're finding them quite troublesome, 76 00:03:11,540 --> 00:03:13,950 it's not you, it's InDesign. 77 00:03:13,950 --> 00:03:16,130 Type, Tabs, back open. 78 00:03:16,125 --> 00:03:18,725 Click on that right there. 79 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,150 Just select them all again, grab you, 80 00:03:21,150 --> 00:03:22,910 make sure he's selected, 81 00:03:22,905 --> 00:03:25,025 go to Leader; I'm going to change it for an underscore, 82 00:03:25,020 --> 00:03:26,220 hit return, and it's working. 83 00:03:26,220 --> 00:03:28,280 [inaudible] have close it, go back in. 84 00:03:28,275 --> 00:03:31,625 I've used an underscore, so you can see just a line joining them all. 85 00:03:31,620 --> 00:03:33,430 It's up to you, what you'd like to do. 86 00:03:33,425 --> 00:03:36,905 I'm going to select them all, turn them back into a leader dot, 87 00:03:37,730 --> 00:03:39,940 and it worked, perfect. 88 00:03:39,940 --> 00:03:41,090 You can actually have anything, 89 00:03:41,085 --> 00:03:42,755 like [inaudible] I'm not going to do it. 90 00:03:42,755 --> 00:03:44,765 You can type in anything there of course. 91 00:03:44,765 --> 00:03:48,915 Underscores, hyphens, anything you want to join those up. 92 00:03:48,910 --> 00:03:52,220 Last thing to do before we leave tabs, close this guy down, 93 00:03:52,215 --> 00:03:55,675 is we've actually changed the paragraph style here. 94 00:03:55,670 --> 00:03:57,230 I know we haven't changed the font, 95 00:03:57,230 --> 00:03:59,630 but we've added these leader dots and we've played with tabs 96 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:02,140 and they're all included in the paragraph style. 97 00:04:02,135 --> 00:04:03,985 Like in the last video we looked at, 98 00:04:03,980 --> 00:04:07,430 whenever you change it, you need to update the, TOC Body. 99 00:04:07,425 --> 00:04:09,005 Let's go and open up window. 100 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,170 Let's go and open up Styles, Paragraph Styles, 101 00:04:12,165 --> 00:04:17,745 and what we'll do is highlight it all, right-click TOC. 102 00:04:17,745 --> 00:04:21,015 You got to right-click it and go to Redefine Style. 103 00:04:21,015 --> 00:04:23,375 That means that if I update my table of contents, 104 00:04:23,375 --> 00:04:26,185 it's going to add these leader dots back in and the tab. 105 00:04:26,180 --> 00:04:28,650 Otherwise, it will reset back to where it was on the left. 106 00:04:28,645 --> 00:04:31,225 All right, that's going to be us for tabs.