Apparently it's called an "alignment tab." I found something at
http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/o...2036053,00.htm.
There's a MS page at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...341341033.aspx. From casual
reading, you might get the impression that they work only in headers and
footer, as that's the context in which they're presented, but the latter
page concludes:

"The Alignment Tab dialog box is only accessible when viewing the Header &
Footer Tools, but they can be utilized anywhere in your document by adding
Insert Alignment Tab to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do so, right-click
Insert Alignment Tab and then click Add To Quick Access Toolbar."

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Words into Type
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"Bob Mathews" wrote in message
...
Interesting. Before I made my previous post this morning, I looked in
the Help file, which of course wasn't very helpful. I didn't find
anything about it there. I've since found this tip, where Allen Wyatt
describes how to do it with a macro (works in Word 97 & later:
http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...ader_Tabs.html

I didn't find anything showing how to set a tab at the right margin
without a macro, so that if the margin changes, the tab changes with
it. If that capability exists, I'd like to know how to do it, so if
someone can point us to the instructions...

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On 5-Feb-2008, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:

I believe Word 2007 does have a "right margin tab stop" of
some kind.