The ruler sits at the top of the document and displays the indents and tabs of the current paragraph. You can show or hide the ruler using the View menu.
You can show or hide the ruler. You can use the ruler to set paragraph indents, to create and move tabs, and to remove tabs. You can set the unit of measure that is displayed in the ruler and elsewhere in the document.
A paragraph has left and right indents. There are two kinds of left indent: the first line indent, and the left indent for the remainder of the paragraph.
You set the left and first line indents using the round marker on the left side of the ruler. It is divided into three parts:
The part labeled “First line indent” moves independently of the other two.
You set the right indent using the round marker on the right side of the ruler:
If a paragraph contains tabs, tab markers appear in the ruler. The shape of the marker indicates whether the tab style is left, center, right, or decimal:
To adjust both the left and the first line indents:
To adjust first line indent:
To adjust the left indent:
To adjust the right indent:
You can also adjust indents using the Indents palette.
To move a tab:
You can also move a tab using the Tabs palette.
You can add a tab marker by dragging from the lower half of the ruler (the hash marks area) to the upper half of the ruler (the markers area).
To add a tab:
To remove a tab:
The ruler uses the unit of measure specified for the document.
To set the unit of measure used by a document: