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246 Text Handling

page. In addition when dragging tabs or margins, if you have magnetic snap switched on,
these will snap to each other making it easier to position tabs and margins.

Margins and indents
Any changes you make are made to the current paragraph of text. (i.e. the paragraph
containing the text cursor) or, if you have a selected region of text, to the paragraphs of
the selected region.

You can apply changes to all text in a text story by selecting all the text within that story
("Ctrl + A"). To change more than one text story, select the text objects while in the
SELECTOR TOOL then change to the TEXT TOOL and make the required changes.

Left margin. Drag this to change the left margin of the text.
First line margin. Drag this to change the left margin for the first line of the
paragraph (useful for lists, as shown below).
Right margin. Drag this to change the right margin of the text.

Demonstrating the left margin and first line margin
Demonstrating a right margin

Tabs
By default, text stories are created with tabs set 0.5 cm apart. This means you can just
press "Tab" and your text will be moved along to the next tab stop. You only need to
define new tab stop positions if you want alternative tab spacing.

These default tabs are shown as faint Ls on the ruler:

Standard tabs, indicated by faint "L"s