Hi,

Have you tried navigating into the text you wish to know attributes about, then 
pressing VO-t.  The VO-t command usually gives a set of relevant attributes 
including text size, colour, style and alignment.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Jim Gatteys <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok I may have gotten it to work.  Just wasn't going down fare enough but now 
> I have no way of telling that the text is right aligned from what I can tell.
> Jim
> 
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Jim,
>> 
>> This was a hard nut to crack but here's how to sort out the alignment.
>> 
>> * Type the text you want to have at the left then jump to the Formatter.
>> * Select layout and interact with the scroll area.
>> * Go down to Tab stops and expand it with VO-Space.
>> * Click the Add tab stop button and interact with the table.
>> * Bring the mouse to the field showing the position of the tab stop and 
>> Double-click using VO-Shift-Space.
>> * Type in either 16 for centimeters or 4.5 for inches.
>> * Interact with the field that says Alignment Left and bring the mouse.
>> * Turn on Mouse keys.
>> * Move the mouse right by pressing the letter o on a laptop or the 6 key on 
>> an extended keyboard 52 times then click with the letter i or the 5.
>> * Move the mouse down the way with either k or 2 until you hear Right then 
>> click with i or 5.
>> * You should now turn Mouse keys off again.
>> Back in your document, navigate to the end of your line and press the Tab 
>> key.
>> * You can now enter the second part of your line and the new text will be 
>> right aligned.
>> 
>> It took my husband and me over an hour to figure this one out and I need to 
>> report it to Apple.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Anne
>> 
>> 
>> On 10 Apr 2014, at 18:19, Jim Gatteys <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> Just wondered if anybody had looked at my earlier post about changing the 
>>> alignment of tabs in pages.  Its a combo box but when I up or down arrow it 
>>> just blinks at me.
>>> Any ideas would be helpful.
>>> 
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