When I press the tab key while using pages, the focus changes to the next row or column in a table.
What I want to happen is to have the cursor jump to the next tab stop.
In other words, I would like normal tab key behavior.
How do I do this?
I can do the following in my Pages '09. I hope this will work for you.
This works for only one cell at a time.
I can do the following in my Pages '09. I hope this will work for you.
This works for only one cell at a time.
You will have to enter a marker character (e.g. X) in the cell (formatted as Text) instead of a tab, then with Find/Replace (deselect whole words and Match case), you can locate that marker character, and replace it with a tab (\t). Pages monitors your keystrokes and when you enter a tab while in a table, that tells it to advance to another cell. You cannot change that behavior when you enter a tab, and a tab behaves the same way in Excel 16.58 and LibreOffice Calc 7.3.
Before:
During Find/Replace:
After:
"Normal" tab key behaviour in a table is to jump to the next column.
"Tab" is the short name for "Tabular." The original purpose of Tab stops and the associated Tab key on a typewriter was to enable type to be placed in columns to form a tabular layout without eye-balling the alignment and adjusting it with the space bar.
'Tab stops' within cells are not supported. By default, text within a cell is aligned to the left boundary of a cell; numbers and quasi number values (eg. date and time values) are aligned to the right boundary of a cell.
You can override these default settings for individual cells or for groups of cells by selecting the cell(s) then using the Text pane of the Format Inspector.
Regards,
Barry
Pages '09 v4.3 was an entirely different (and better) application than Pages v11.2. The latter ignores document tab stops and advances to the next cell. The OP is on Catalina, so that rules out Pages '09.
Tested: Pages v11.2 on macOS 12.2.1.
Viking,
Thank you for your help in this and other questions.
Regards,
PinkSakura
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