Alignment Question

P. Ahmed

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    • May 3, 2015 at 3:24 pm #75118
      P. Ahmed
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      Hello folks, I have two sentences which are on one line and centered, I want to have a gap in between these two sentences so I press the tab key one time, but when I do that one of the lines goes all the way to the left edge of the text box and the other one just moves slightly to the right, i.e., the two lines stop being centered even though the tab space isn’t big at all and there is enough room for these two short sentences to be centered even after the tab is pressed. How do I keep them centered with a small gap in between both? I mean I know I could go back to the wicked ways of Word and press spacespacespacespacespacespacespacespace between the two sentences, but I’ve left sinning like that.

    • May 4, 2015 at 6:26 am #75134
      Dwayne Harris
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      There’s no easy way to do what you want, except for playing with the tab settings.
      I think it’s just as easy (and nothing wrong) with inserting fixed white space (i.e., multiple em or en spaces).

    • May 4, 2015 at 6:31 am #75135
      P. Ahmed
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      Ok cool, I’ll just mess about with the tabs to see if I can get to it, otherwise, multiple em spaces sounds good to me.

      Thanks.

    • May 4, 2015 at 8:43 am #75146
      K Hanes
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      Remember the em & en spaces will change with your font selection and size. I would use two centered tabs in the text box for complete control.

      • May 5, 2015 at 7:29 am #75177
        P. Ahmed
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        Two centered tabs would be nice but I can’t figure how to do it, been messing about with it for ages but not sure. That em dash solution is so easy and ideal and is what I’m using now. But I’d like also to master the two centred tabs solution just to know how to do it.

      • May 5, 2015 at 9:57 am #75180
        Dwayne Harris
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        ^^To me, it would take too long. It all depends upon your text measure, how much space you want between the two sentences, etc.

        By the time you figure all that out, a couple of em spaces could have been put in and you would have continued on your merry way.

      • May 5, 2015 at 10:47 am #75181
        P. Ahmed
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        You ain’t wrong, the em dash solution is smooth sailing.

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