Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at tabs; and in our case,
there's tabs in here,
but we want them to go from this to this.
We're also going to add leader dots as well.
Let's go and do that now in this tutorial.
To make tabs work, first thing you need to do,
if you're zoomed in and you can't see the top,
see this is the top of my textbook,
if I can't see that,
it's going to go a little bit wrong.
I'm going to go up to Type, and go to Tabs.
I love InDesign, I am a fan boy of InDesign.
Tabs is probably the hardest thing to use in here and
probably not really greatly implemented.
I like the way we do it,
we just ties it into this ruler on the top.
But anyway, Type, hit Tabs.
Because I can't see the top of that box, watch what happens.
It just randomly pace in the middle of the page,
and I actually connected to the Type box.
You can see how I scroll up a little bit so I can see it,
and you can hit this little magnetic button here and it will stick to the top.
Just make sure you can see the top of the box,
otherwise, it can be really troublesome.
What I'd like to do is with my type tool,
I'm going to highlight all of the bits that I want to work with.
Now there is actually a tab in between these,
that's what the table of contents does for us.
You can see it's lining up,
but there is not enough room, so we want to put the tab way out here.
I've highlighted it all,
I've gone to my magnetic buttons so it lines up,
and all you need to do is click in this slightly lighter gray area,
it's a little bit difficult to explain,
but you can see with my arrow is wiggling back and forth.
I want to click in there once,
and you can see they all align up.
You can move it around,
click and drag it a little bit if it's not in the right place.
One thing you might find is you accidentally,
if you don't click in exactly on
that tiny little blue arrow and you click just here, you can see you get two of them.
You end up playing around with two of them,
and if you want to get rid of one,
just click on it, hit Delete on your keyboard.
Don't do that. Click, hold,
and drag it off, and it will disappear.
The next thing we need to do is,
I want to mess around with say the,
it's a little bit hard because these numbers are so far away,
I want to add some dots, well,
like we saw at the beginning of this video.
They're called leader dots.
What you do is, you highlight all of our texts like we have,
you need to make sure that the tab you're working with is highlighted. Mine is not.
Click on this, it goes blue.
Then where it says, Leader,
you put in a full stop or a period,
hit Enter, and you've got these leader dots that
rush across the page to join up the number.
You can have other things,
I can put an underscore.
Now I find this a little bit troublesome on the Pro and I still can't make it work.
Now I think this might be just my version, I hope it is.
I'm hoping you just delete this period and type in an underscore.
What's happening for me is,
it's deleting all my text. Why is that happening?
I'm not quite sure.
I've played around with this a couple of times and it's still doing it,
I'm sure with the next fix it'll be fine.
Let's try it one more time, I'm going to close down the tabs.
I'm leaving this in here because the head tabs are a little bit fiddly,
and at the moment they're are extra fiddly.
If you're finding them quite troublesome,
it's not you, it's InDesign.
Type, Tabs, back open.
Click on that right there.
Just select them all again, grab you,
make sure he's selected,
go to Leader; I'm going to change it for an underscore,
hit return, and it's working.
[inaudible] have close it, go back in.
I've used an underscore, so you can see just a line joining them all.
It's up to you, what you'd like to do.
I'm going to select them all, turn them back into a leader dot,
and it worked, perfect.
You can actually have anything,
like [inaudible] I'm not going to do it.
You can type in anything there of course.
Underscores, hyphens, anything you want to join those up.
Last thing to do before we leave tabs, close this guy down,
is we've actually changed the paragraph style here.
I know we haven't changed the font,
but we've added these leader dots and we've played with tabs
and they're all included in the paragraph style.
Like in the last video we looked at,
whenever you change it, you need to update the, TOC Body.
Let's go and open up window.
Let's go and open up Styles, Paragraph Styles,
and what we'll do is highlight it all, right-click TOC.
You got to right-click it and go to Redefine Style.
That means that if I update my table of contents,
it's going to add these leader dots back in and the tab.
Otherwise, it will reset back to where it was on the left.
All right, that's going to be us for tabs.