The Ruler Bar allows you to format the vertical alignment of text in a document. It displays and sets tabs and indent markers for paragraphs. You can use it to quickly change the format of your document.
Ribbon
The title will be in the bar at the top of the window or if you hover your mouse over the document in your task bar it will show the name of your document.
The status bar presents information about the document and the progress of current tasks and provides controls for viewing the document.
The title bar.
left, center, right, decimal, and bar.
the space bar
ruler bar allows you to format the vertical alignment of text in a document
Only the default tabs can be exclusively set in the Tabs dialog box. Left, Right, Center, Decimal and Bar tabs can be set through the ruler. You can't set leaders for tabs there though, but they are not kinds of tabs.
status bar
Go to tools -> options -> tabs -> Check the square that says "Always show the tab bar".
tabs