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Tab Leaders
You can use Tab Leaders to fill the tab spaces with any character you wish. For
example:

So the space between the tabs is filled with a period. You can setup the character to be
used in the Tab Stop Properties dialog.

NOTE: Not all export formats support all characters as tab leaders, and they may be
replaced for another character or omitted from the document. For example, if you use '@'
as a tab leader, when exported to the .docx format and opened in MS Word, it will show
as '.' instead.

How to creating hanging indents
Hanging Indents, as they are known, are where the first line of a paragraph has a
negative margin or a margin that hangs to the left of the normal left margin. Numbered or
bulleted lists are examples of hanging indents.
To create hanging indents:

1. Drag the left margin inwards.
2. Click on the ruler away from the left margin (creates a new tab stop) and drag this
tab stop to be exactly over the left margin.
3. Now each line will start outdented—you can insert any special character or number
and press "Tab" to move to the left margin. And (as with this paragraph) all
subsequent lines of text are indented to the left margin.

Repelling text objects

You can make any object in Xara Web Designer Premium repel text so that text
underneath it automatically flows around the object, instead of appearing underneath it.
This makes it easy to lay out pages containing long passages of text combined with
photos and graphics. Once you've set them to repel, you can adjust the positions of your
graphics and photos and the text will automatically adjust and reflow around them.