ICT

The magic word is "be" - ie. At least one text style will be for the body text.

This was a bald moment!

Keith C Parry

May I jump on the end of this one and ask about the difference between tabs and indents for AO2. Intents are more obvious, but I could ask the simple question 'what might you actually use tabs for?' This is also perhaps a bit of a blonde \ bald question (I am neither by the way!) but it makes me wonder where tabs are actually that likely to be used. It is a stipulation for Merit.

I will go further and explain a more precise scenario that prompted the thought - I have a student that is using Serif PagePlus and they have set up a bulleted list style in the publication (also stipulated for Merit). They have changed the tabstop position for the bullet points as part of this - meaning that the text is further away from the bullet itself. Such an action is not an indentation as such - indentation would be best applied to what happens to the different levels of the bullet points presumably. But it made me wonder - can this count as 'the use of tabs' for Merit - or might I have to treat this as an indentation change instead (for Pass) and then prompt an alternative use for tabs - but what might the alternative options be...??!!

Thanks.

Tabs are a potential difficulty, as their more traditional use has been superseded by tables if you restrict your thinking to straightforward left-hand ones.  I tend to think about when I would use them myself, and I only ever use them if I want a right hand tab, a decimal tab or a tab with leader dots (as in a price list etc).  If I were teaching this unit I'd show candidates the various options you can have with tabs to try to make them more meaningful.