Tabulating Text

You can organize text into columns by setting tabs in the Tabulation menu. In a text layer, you can also set tab stops to align text at specific locations in a paragraph.

To access the Tabulation menu:

  1. Create a text layer.
  2. In the Text menu, click Tabulation.

    The Tabulation menu appears.

The Tabulation controls are described as follows.

To set a tab stop:

  1. In the Tabulation menu, click Add to add the tab stop in a text layer.

    (a) Tab stop shown in the ruler  

  2. Click the tab stop and drag it to its new location on the ruler. Alternatively, enter a pixel value in the Position field.

    Once you set tab stops for a paragraph, press Tab in subsequent paragraphs to type text in the location of the next tab stop. In a text layer, each time you press Enter, the tab stops you set in the previous paragraph are carried to the next paragraph.