Set tab stops in Pages on Mac
You can set tab stops to align text left, right, at the center, or on a decimal point. With tab stops in place, pressing the Tab key (or Option-Tab in a table cell), moves the insertion point (and any text after it) to the next tab stop.
After you set tab stops, you can change their alignment and spacing, change the symbol used for decimal-aligned tab stops, and add a leader line (such as a dotted line) between items separated by tab stops.
Note: The tab stops you set apply only to the text that’s selected when you set them. If you start a new section or use a different paragraph style, the tabs aren’t used. To keep the tab stops for other text in the document, update the paragraph style after you set the tabs. Then any text that uses that paragraph style uses the same tab stops.