Bar Tabs in Pages?

Are you asking about the system where the bartenders mark down the drinks as you order them, and then you just pay for it all when you leave? Perhaps you could explain in more detail.

Jerry

Please explain what it is you mean by the "bar tab"?

Do you mean a dash - ?

Or an underscore_ ?

Or something else?

You can change the bullet character quite easily in:

+Inspector > Text > List > Bullets & Numbering > Text Bullets/Image Bullets/Custom Image…+

Peter

I guess that the OP ask about the Tab Stops in the Ruler.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 24 août 2010 19:18:28

Try: View > Show Rulers. Select the content that you want to format. Check tab stops, etc. in Ruler.

Jerry

Here's a MS Support site paragraph on the "bar tab".

When you set a bar tab stop, a vertical bar line appears where you set the tab stop (you don't need to press the TAB key). A bar tab is similar to strikethrough formatting, but it runs vertically through your paragraph at the location of the bar tab stop. Like other types of tabs, you can set a bar tab stop before or after you type the text of your paragraph.

As far as I know, there is no equivalent functionality in Pages. You could explore "Guides" and see if you could get by on just using them. In Pages > Preferences, enable the Vertical Ruler and pull a guide line off the ruler to the position where you need it.

Jerry

Message was edited by: Jerrold Green1

In Pages you just click on the ruler to get a tab.

To change it click on it again, or right mouse click to get the list of tab types.

However there is no equivalent for the vertical bar tab except the character "|" which is on the caps of the forward slash key.

Peter

wrdh - What you are asking about is called Tab stops, at least in Pages.

You can read about tab stops i the Pages User Guide, downloadable from the Pages Help menu. Page 91-93.

Maybe I didn't understand it. Still read the Pages User Guide and see if there is anything that will work for you.

What Word does is not something most of us here know to much about.

Please relax. Go back to my last post and read what I said about what I quoted from the MS site. I quoted the MS site so you would know exactly how I understood your question after researching it, and so that Peter and fruhulda would too.

There are many, many, features in Word that don't exist in Pages. I don't know when the Bar Tab appeared in Word, but I haven't used Word seriously in many years, so it was all new to me. That's why I didn't recognize your problem as originally stated. Apparently no one else did either because it was just sitting there for longer than normal. If you are seriously dependent on things like the Bar Tab in Word, then you would be better served by staying with Office/Word. If you can let go of some of the frillier features in Word you may be rewarded with a few nice surprises in Pages.

Good luck,

Jerry