Replace tab with break

[Francis Hookham]

Please help me find the third Tab Character in each paragraph and replace it
with a Manual Line Break.

NB I might need to change to second or fourth Tab Character.

Francis Hookham
(I thought I had posted this request but I cannot find it - please excuse me
if this IS the second request)

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

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Please help me find the third Tab Character in each paragraph and
replace it with a Manual Line Break.

NB I might need to change to second or fourth Tab Character.

Francis Hookham
(I thought I had posted this request but I cannot find it - please
excuse me if this IS the second request)

Selection.HomeKey wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "(*^t*^t*)(^t)(*^13)"
.MatchWildcards = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Forward = True
.Replacement.Text = "\1^l\3"
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With

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[Klaus Linke]

Please help me find the third Tab Character in each paragraph and replace

.Text = "(*^t*^t*)(^t)(*^13)"
.Replacement.Text = "\1^l\3"

Hi Jean-Guy,

Very nice pattern! It took me a while to see why this expression always
works, and it's really not easy to find something that works both for
paragraphs that start with text, and with a tab.

.Text = "(*^t*^t*)(^t)(*^13)"
does the trick because the pattern matching stops each tentative match
(whether successful or not) when it encounters a ^13, and then starts anew
right after each paragraph mark.

Regards,
Klaus