Selecting tab types

The Tabs dialog box is another method to work with tabs, giving the user many more options and the ability to set exact measurements for professional documents.

1. To access the Tabs dialog box, double-click on a tab indent marker on the ruler, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Or click on the Paragraph dialog box launcher located in the Paragraph group, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

2. Click on the Tabs... button located at the bottom of the Paragraph box to access the Tabs dialog box, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

3. Note that the default tab stop is at 1.27 cm, as per the preceding screenshot, and we have five types of alignments. Let's have a look at how each type of tab alignment appears in Word 2019, illustrated in the following screenshot: