Clarisworks  4 in 9.2.2

I've been a lover of Clarisworks since there was a Clarisworks by that name. But, there is one option I have never been able to use as I can not figure out how. I want to set the tabs in my document to other than 1/2 inch apart. I have read the Tabs in text document help file. I can set a tab, but only for one line at a time - each line has to be set individually rather than setting the tab for the entire document. Is here a way to do this?
Any old timers out there who still use Clarisworks 4 who might be able to help me out?
Patt
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Hi Patt,
It's been a while since I've used CW 4, but I don't think tab setting has changed since then.
Tab settings are part of Paragraph formatting, so they should apply to a whole paragraph rather than just a single line. CW/AW defines a 'paragraph' as all of the text between two return characters.
Tabs set while you're writing the document will carry forward as you add more paragraphs to the one where you've set the tabs. If you set tabs after finishing the writing in that section, the tabs will apply only to the paragraphs that were selected when you placed the tab stops.
Setting a tab stop deletes all of the default stops located to its left on the ruler, but has no effect on the default stops to its right.
To answer your specific question:
To set tab stops that will apply to all paragraphs in an existing document (and to all new paragraphs added to that document from the keyboard):
•Click in the document
•press command-A to Select All
•set the tab stops by dragging them to the ruler and dropping them in the desired position
•Click again in the text to deselect all.
Regards,
Barry

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