Margins affect the formatting of an entire document. You can adjust them by dragging the gray area on either side of the ruler, or by adjusting the margins by selecting File > Page setup from the toolbar.
Set all margins on your Google Document at half inch, .5
Your resume will usually be single spaced.
Like indents, tab stops affect documents at the specific paragraph level. Each tab stop determines how text is aligned relative to it: a left tab stop left aligns particular text to the tab stop, a center tab stop center-aligns it, and a right tab stop right aligns that text. To add a tab stop, just click anywhere in the ruler and select a tab stop. You can move text between tab stops affecting the same line by pressing the Tab key on your keyboard. Set tab stops according to in class instructions.
The ability to copy and paste just formatting, in both Google and Microsoft, is a powerful tool which many of my students do not know about before taking this class.
In Google, it looks like this.
In Microsoft, it looks like this