Rule: You may not place more than two spaces anywhere in any document, and you may not place any spaces at all in the beginning of a line.
Therefore, use tabs if you want to move text or to indent it by a specified amount, use the key on the left side of the keyboard. Sometimes it has the word Tab on it, and sometimes has two arrows, one going left and one going right. That tab key is also called a tabulator Table Maker key. It helps you make tables that line up in nice, neat columns.
With the Tab, the Table Maker key, you can either accept the standard set by Bill Gates - which is every half inch or its equivalent in centimeters, or you can set your own tabs, with any spacing you like.
Setting your own tabs in Word is easy. If you have a ruler line on top, click on it. The tab will appear at that point. If you do not have a visible ruler line, then click on View/Ruler and wherever you click it will show a tab marking. Your tab button will stop at the tab.
The side of that ruler has other tab options. A tab can come out of the left side, the right side, or be centered on the ruler's tab marking.
The center tab is particularly interesting, because it centers everything around itself. This is useful if you have two things that you want to center on a page, such as a signature of two people with their titles underneath the signature. You want them to be side by side but you want everything under the signature to be centered. The center tab lines up as you want. Use the right tab and the text will move to the left instad of to the right and you type. This is useful for adding Besayyata DiShmaya or the date on the right side.
Tab leaders allow you to create lines that end where you want them to, instead of randomly. True, you can do this with the table feature but tabs are a valid way to do the job.
Thus, the tab button may be one of the most important features of your entire keyboard if you think the way that Microsoft had in mind.
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