WD97: Word Ruler Supports Only Mouse Commands

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As the result of customer feedback, Microsoft increased the functionality of the ruler starting with Word 6.0. To prevent too much complexity, the additional mouse functionality required a loss of keyboard functionality. As a result, there is no longer a ruler mode you can activate to allow setting tabs and indents directly from the keyboard.

New functions and changes to the ruler:

• The indent and margin modes were combined.
• You automatically switch to table mode when in a table.
• Page layout view now has a vertical ruler.
• You can set all indents using the mouse without keyboard intervention. (Previously you had to hold down the SHIFT key to drag the body indent triangle.)
• You can choose the type of tab from the ruler.
• The visual style has been improved to make it easier to use.

To set all paragraph settings using the keyboard, click either Paragraph or Tabs on the Format menu.