Add tab leaders, Character and paragraph styles, About character and paragraph styles – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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Add tab leaders
A tab leader is a repeated pattern of characters, such as a series of dots or dashes, between a tab and the following text.
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In the Tabs panel, select a tab stop on the ruler.
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Type a pattern of as many as eight characters in the Leader box, and then press Enter or Return. The characters you
entered repeat across the width of the tab.
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To change the font or other formatting of the tab leader, select the tab character in the text frame, and use the
Character panel or Type menu to apply formatting.
Character and paragraph styles
About character and paragraph styles
A character style is a collection of character-formatting attributes that you can apply to a selected range of text. A
paragraph style includes both character- and paragraph-formatting attributes, and can be applied to a selected
paragraph or range of paragraphs. Using character and paragraph styles saves time and ensures consistent formatting.
You use the Character Styles and Paragraph Styles panels to create, apply, and manage character and paragraph styles.
To apply a style, simply select text and click a style name in one of the panels. If you don’t select any text, the style
applies to new text you create.
Paragraph Styles panel
A. Style name B. Style with additional formatting (overrides) C. Panel menu D. New Style button E. Delete icon
When you select text or insert the cursor in text, the active styles are highlighted in the Character Styles and Paragraph
Styles panels. By default, every character in a document is assigned the Normal Character Style and every paragraph is
assigned the Normal Paragraph Style. These default styles are the building blocks for all other styles you create.
A plus sign next to a style name indicates that there are overrides to the style. An override is any formatting that doesn’t
match the attributes defined by the style. Any time you change settings in the Character and OpenType panel, you
create an override to the current character style; likewise, when you change settings in the Paragraph panel, you create
an override to the current paragraph style.
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See also
Create character or paragraph styles
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If you want to base the new style on the formatting of existing text, select the text.
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