Sometimes you want to go all the way and get yourself an Almond Joy. But, sometimes you feel like a nut (see Figure 1). Often times, you’re satisfied with the chocolate covered coconut goodness of a Mounds bar. Often times that’s exactly what you want. And, if you change the character and paragraph attributes of the entire paragraph, the leader will change as well. If you set a leadered tabstop amidst black 12/16 pt Electra LT Std Regular text, you’ll get a black 12/16 pt Electra LT Std Regular leader. Tab leaders–dots, underscores, hyphens, smiley faces, whatever–inserted via the Tabs Ruler are automatically the same font and color as the surrounding text. Now, let’s talk about formatting those leaders.
Last week in the first part of this back to basics series on tab leaders we discussed creating dotted tab leaders in the Tabs palette to separate columnar text.