In this example, the 'Tab Stop' is set at 6 inches. The 'Tab Stop' position will be the position for aligning the text on the page. Open the Tabs dialogue box by clicking on the Tabs button.Įnter your settings for your Tab. In the Paragraph section of the Home Ribbon, click the Paragraph Settings dialogue box launcher in the lower right corner (you can also right-click on your mouse and select 'Paragraph' from the menu). This will open a new window with Paragraph Settings.Īt the bottom of the Paragraph Settings dialogue box, there is a 'Tabs' button. Highlight the text you want to add a dot leader to by using your cursor to click and drag over the text.

between left and right text on the same line) and can be created using the tabs dialogue box.

Using Tabs to add Dot Leaders in a Table of Contents in MS Word 2016ĭot Leaders add a visual link to separated words on one line (typically seen as.

1 Student Wellness & Disability Services.

15 Statistical Tests: Tests of Mean Differences.

17 Statistical Tests: Probability and Regression.

4 Statistical Tests: Multivariate Methods.

39 Office of Research and Doctoral Services.

5 Center for Global, Professional, and Applied Learning.

Whatever unit of measurement you’ve set for the ruler is also used for your tab stops. Note the unit of measurement on your tab stops. “None” (1) is the default option and does not apply a tab leader to the selected tab stop. In the Leader section, select the type of tab leader you want: dots (2), dashes (3), or underscores (4). On the Tabs dialog box, you can adjust your tab stop measurement using the Tab stop position box and change the Alignment of the tab. A tab stop is added to the ruler and then the Tabs dialog box is opened. If you don’t have a tab stop defined yet, simply double-click the ruler where you want to add your tab stop with the leader. To do so, put the cursor on the line on which you want to add a tab leader and double-click the desired tab marker on the ruler. To add a tab leader to a tab stop, we need to open the Tabs dialog box.

However, adding a tab leader to a tab stop is easy and we’ll show you how. You can place tab stops on a line using the ruler, but you cannot add a tab leader to a tab stop using the ruler.

Word set tab stops