I did a paper for my professor and she said that for the tabs they should be 0.5 in (which is the default, I know) but she also said that if I did have 0.5 in tabs, it should equal 5 spaces. Well I was testing that out and I realized that on Pages, that does not equal. I think she said this because Microsoft Word, 0.5 in is 5 spaces indented for a paragraph.
I tried setting the tab to 0.2 in and noticed that I got really close to equaling 5 indent spaces but was still just a tad off. Why is 0.5 in different for Word than it is for Pages?? I am almost 100% sure that what I'm saying is correct because I have talked this over with my professor before and she has told us that 0.5 in should equal 5 spaces but obviously, it doesn't. So.can anyone explain to me why this is and what is the closest inch to 5 spaces so I can have it exactly the way my professor wants it?
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Your professor is right ONLY if you are using a 'monospace' font. I hope she's not teaching Word Processing. Inches and spaces are NOT always identical. The primary variable is the font in use which may or may not use five space to reach.5 inches.
A 'monospace' font, (aka 'fixed width' font) such as Courier will meet this requirement because a space takes up as much room as a single character. Other fonts, such as Helvetica or Times Roman use less room for spaces and for narrow letters like 'i' and 'l' and more space for the letters like 'm' and 'w'. Therefore the word 'wills' takes up less space when using the Helvetica font than it does when using the Courier font. As long as the tabs are.5 inches apart, the number of spaces needed to reach.5 inches is irrelevant for formatting purposes.
(That is, unless the formatting requirements also specify what font to use.) But if you want to keep the prof happy and avoid any confusion or dispute over how many characters will equal a tab stop and want each space/character to equal.1 inches, use a monospace font like Courier at 12 point size. Other monospace fonts include Courier New, Monaco and Andale Mono. Good luck, Terry Message was edited by: Terry Keelan1. I'm sorry.I left out the information that I would always be using 12 pt. And most of the time 'Times New Roman.'
I don't know why she said this but on Word, with the above specifications, 0.5 in SHOULD equal 5 spaces, regardless.she said 5 spaces should ALWAYS equal the paragraph indentation that I use my tabs for. How could I do this using the 'tabs' button if I always use 12 pt. Font and Times New Roman??
Also, how much of the tab settings would I have to alter if I decided to change fonts NOT font size? 'Times New Roman' is NOT a fixed width font and you will never make five spaces equal.5 inches without constantly tweaking the letterspacing. If Times New Roman uses five space/.5 inches on your professor's computer she's either using a version of Times New Roman that is uniquely hers or she is just wrong. The ONLY way to guarantee that five space will equal.5 inches in your document is to use a monospaced or fixed width font, such as Courier or the others I have listed. As long as each tab is.5 inches I don't really understand why there is an issue.
Is your professor counting the number of characters in the line below the tab to make sure there are only five there? Surely she has better things to do than apply a ruler to your research paper to measure out the tabs and type. Surely you have better things to do than to worry about this, too.
Good luck, Terry. The following comments are just small corrections of details in the previous posts. The main points and advice given to you in the posts are still very valid. The width of a space is treated the same in proportional and non-proportional fonts. The width of characters changes, however. The Microsoft Word way of indenting the first line of a paragraph has nothing to do with tabs (except as a strange keyboard shortcut). Since at least MS Word 1.0 for OS/2, Word has given the user the possibility to add proper indentation.
But the advice is still the same: do not use spaces or tabs for indentation unless you write non-formatted text and text files. Peggy wrote: Every Word document I've ever received with an 'indented' first line has a tab at the beginning of a paragraph. I rarely create a file in Word, but I recall it putting in the tab even though I didn't want it to. Just like Word puts physical tab markers every half inch, rather than default but not visible tabs like Pages & AppleWorks, it appears to be the 'Microsoft way.'
Just like inexperienced users of Pages probably use the 'five spaces' or 'one tab' indent of the paragraphs, many Word users have done so. I have worked with quite a few of them.
I never quite understood the shortcut logic in Word, but I know how to use it, and it works. If you start a paragraph with a tab, you get a tab. If you start a paragraph with text, then go back to the beginning of the paragraph and press tab, you get an indent - not a tab. If you have a paragraph starting with either an indent or a tab, and you press backspace, the indent or tab goes away. In this case it is transparent for the user if you have one or the other.
There is no problem creating a style in Word with an indent, just like in Pages. If you import a Word file with tabs or indents at the beginning of paragraphs, Pages keeps the original formatting perfectly - tab and indent stay the same. A style in Word with an indent also imports fine to Pages. Tabs in Word are not physical. It is the same logic as in Pages. If you have not assigned any tab manually, both Word and Pages set default 'ghost' tabs at every half inch.
As soon as you add your first manual tab, all the previous 'ghost' tabs are replaced by the manual tab you add. The main difference is that Word displays the ghost tabs, so users can tell where they are. I am pretty sure this was all working the same way already in MS Word 1.0 for OS/2 more than 15 years ago. (One can imagine how many updates people have paid for since then to use exactly the same functionality today.). Tabs in Word are not physical.
It is the same logic as in Pages. If you have not assigned any tab manually, both Word and Pages set default 'ghost' tabs at every half inch. As soon as you add your first manual tab, all the previous 'ghost' tabs are replaced by the manual tab you add. The main difference is that Word displays the ghost tabs, so users can tell where they are. Opening any Word document or pasting its contents into a Pages or AppleWorks document will reveal physical tabs in the ruler.
They must be manually removed. Or you can apply a Pages paragraph style that doesn't have them. I still cannot explain why you see physical tabs in Pages, but I think I have some kind of explanation for my Mac.
In AppleWorks you cannot set the distance between default tabs, as far as I know. However, you can do it in Word. So when AppleWorks imports a Word document, it converts the ghost tabs to real tabs, to be sure that the formatting stays the same, in case the Word user had changed anything. In Pages, you can set the distance between default tabs, and Pages correctly imports the ghost tab distance from Word documents. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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In Word,. File Open. Click on Your HD, double click Users, then find and double click on your username (as opposed to Shared). Double-click Library. Scroll down to Application Support, double click, and choose Microsoft.
Select Office, and then find User Templates You should see Normal.dot or Normal.dotm. Open this, and adjust ALL the settings you like (margins, font, spacing, you can even type in the doc to include space for where you want your name, title, date to appear on every document you create in the future!). Don't forget to SAVE!. Open a new doc and fill in the blanks/change your prompts and GO! To permanently change the font formatting for all new documents use the following procedures. On the Format menu, click Font.
Make all of the desired changes in the Font dialog box. Click Default. When prompted with the following, click Yes: Do you want to change the default font to? This change will affect all new documents based on the NORMAL template.
Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the File menu, and click Save All. Word will not prompt you to save the changes to the Normal.dot unless you have the option 'Prompt to Save Normal template' selected on the Save tab of the Preferences dialog box (on the Tools menu, click Preferences).