How to use Tabs--request for source

[Cultural Iconography]

A very basic and probably stupid question...I do not understand the use of
the tabs as the relate to aligning two-digit numbers with one-digit numbers
in an outline or numbered lists. (In other words, align them so that the
two-digit numbers don't "stick out" too much to the right as opposed to the
one-digit numbers. Can anyone recommend a book, online site, etc.? Thanks in
advance!

 

[grammatim]

Use a Tab that Aligns Right. If you're setting your tabs by clicking
on the ruler, then click on the tiny Tab icon at the far left end of
the ruler. It starts out looking like an L; that's a Left-Align tab.
Click it twice and it should be a backwards L. Then each time you
click a tab onto the ruler, it will be a Right-Aligned tab, and your
columns of numbers will line up against it. (If you want your columns
of numbers to be centered, then use the tab whose icon is an upside-
down T.)

Set the tabs in the first paragraph of the list, and each time you
make a new paragraph by typing Enter, those tab settings will be
carried into the new paragraph.

If you set your tabs with the tab set dialog under Format, or by
modifying a Style, then you pick Right alignment for each one before
you click Set.