It's the View That Counts

Scenario:  Secretary is working on a document and has the Ruler Visible.  The secretary wants to add an additional Tab to the ruler.  When the secretary clicks on the ruler to place a "Left" Tab, a "Right Tab" (backwards L) comes up instead.  

Not a big deal, but when the secretary looks for the Tab Type Selector, so they could switch the Tab Type back to a Left Tab, the selector, which normally resides on the extreme left of the ruler is nowhere to be found.  

Not understanding what is happening, the secretary shrinks the screen view thinking well maybe it is there but obscured because of the screen size and therefore not visible but even after shrinking the screen size still no selector.  Time is wasting and you want this to be fixed as soon as possible.

What happened was that the secretary was simply operating in Web Layout View.  In Web Layout View, Outline View and Full Screen Reading View, there will be no Tab Type Selector.  

You will only find the Tab Type Selector tool under Draft View (Formally Normal) and Print Layout View.

Anyone could make this simple error.  I have seen an operator add their Tabs through Page Layout, Paragraph, Tabs (Lower Left), because they needed to add a tab to the ruler, they could not find the Tab Type Selector at that moment and had no time to spare to figure it out so they just did what they had to do in order to keep moving.  You could also double click on the Ruler to bring up the Tabs Dialog Box.  It is important to note that many people like to use the selector because they like the visual aspect of physically placing the tabs on the ruler.

Although I work a lot in Draft View because I like to take advantage of the Left Side Style Area Tracking for style modification, I also switch back and forth between Draft and Print Layout.  

On a final note:  Remember, in Draft View, to modify a style you double click on the styles listed on the left side (under Draft View) while right clicking on a style in the Style Panel on the right side, gets you to Modify as well.  Remember the Mantra "Double Click Left Right Click Right"

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