Tabs shown as exclamation marks in preview and pdf

I’m having a problem for which there is probably a perfectly good explanation: when I add tabs to my Pages document, they show up as exclamation marks in the document preview and when I print the document as PDF. Is there any way to turn this off? Thanks, Cait

Hello
I'm unable to reproduce this problem.
Something seems to be odd in your system.
Always the same tracks:
a - repair permissions with Disk Utility
b - trash the preferences file:
<bootVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist
c - if it is not sufficient try to run Pages from an other user account for see.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 27 février 2008 16:24:27)

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