Changing editor tab settings

You can easily change the editor tab stops to suit the requirements of the document you are working on.

To change the tab stops, you must first open the Tabs pane in the Application Preference dialog:

Select File from the editor menu bar.
Select Preferences. The Application Preferences dialog appears.
In the Application Preferences dialog, expand the Editor preferences tree by clicking on the + beside Editor.
Select Tabs from the expanded list of Editor preferences. The Tabs preference pane appears.

Within this pane, do the following:

In the Tab stops field, specify specific column positions in which you want tab stops to appear. For example, if you want tab stops at columns 1, 3, and 5, enter the following:
```
1 3 5
```
Specify a tab increment span in the Tab increment field. For example, a value of 4 would cause a tab stop to be placed at every fourth character position following the last tab stop defined in the Tab stops field.
If you want the editor to expand tab characters into the appropriate number of hard space characters, select the Expand tab characters check box.
Click Apply to apply the tab settings to the editor, then click OK pushbutton to close the Application Preferences dialog.