Tutorial
Adjust the Tabs in the stylesheet

The schedule of events is not long enough to fill the text block, so there is a space at the bottom. There are a number of ways you could correct that, but since some of the turnovers in the descriptions of the events are not very good, you can reduce the tab measure within which the descriptions of the events wrap.

Since the text is formatted with a stylesheet and you want to keep all but one of its specifications, you can modify the stylesheet itself.

  1. Choose Styles from the Document menu. The Styles dialog box appears. Because the Events Text stylesheet is applied to all the selected text, Events Text is selected in the dialog box.

  2. Click Modify. The Style Specifications dialog box appears. At the top of the dialog box is the name of the stylesheet. Beneath the stylesheet's name, the dialog box is very similar to the Type Specifications dialog box you've already worked with.

  3. Click the Tabs button. The Tabs dialog box for the Events Text stylesheet appears, displaying a ruler with two tab stops. The tab stops are dimmed because they aren't selected.

  4. Click the larger, down-pointing arrow of the tab stop on the right (the arrow that points to 11 picas, 2 points on the ruler).

  5. Drag the small arrow that indicates the tab measure to the left, until 14.10 is displayed as the measure in the upper portion of the dialog box.

  6. Click OK in the Tabs dialog box, OK in the Styles Specifications dialog box, and Done in the Styles dialog box. The change you made to the stylesheet is immediately reflected in the schedule of events: the tab measure in which the descriptions of the events wraps becomes 1 pica narrower, and the resulting text wrap causes the text to fill out the text block.