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Setting up Ruler display, the alignment ruler bar in Word to perform operations on Word more conveniently. Users can use the Ruler to change tab settings for multiple sections of text at once. For example, you can format some text copied from multiple different documents, each section of text having different paragraph indentation settings as illustrated below.
However, in some cases when selecting text, all marked tabs will turn gray and cannot be changed. In this article, Mytour will guide you on how to fix the issue of unable to modify tabs from Ruler in Word.
Fixing the issue of unable to modify tabs from Ruler in Word
Fortunately, you don't have to start over and change each section of text individually. Follow the steps below to fix the issue of unable to modify tabs from Ruler in Word:
Step 1: Select the text sections with the tabs you want to reformat.
Step 2: Press the Alt + O + T key combination (or double-click on one of the gray tab markers on the Ruler).
Step 3: A Tabs dialog box will appear on the screen as shown below. Here, you click Clear All then select OK.
Step 4: Click on the horizontal ruler at the 1-inch mark to set new tabs for the selected text sections.
As shown below, you can see all the text sections are indented equally.
By applying the method to fix changing tabs from Ruler in Word introduced by Mytour above, hopefully, you can resolve the issue you are encountering. Wish you success.
