tabs

[Project LAMBS]

I have a number of tabs put in the Word document (I think
because of conversion from Wordperfect). Without having
to go through each line of a 90 page document, how to I
get rid of them? They are in different places on each
line and there are about a dozen for each line.
Thank you for your help.

 

[Darrell]

Clearly, if you have no legitimate tabs in the text, a
simple search for tabs and replacement with nothing will
remove them all.

If you have legitimate tabs mixed in with the illegitimate
ones, it may still be easier to remove all tabs, then
replace the legitimate ones.

If the legitimate tabs follow a clear pattern such as the
fist line of each paragraph, they could easily be
automatically reinstated by replacing paragraph markers
with paragraph markers followed by tabs (or, better,
defining the style to indent the first line).

If the pattern is more complex, you could think through
other pattern sequences. An example would be to search for
2 tabs and replace with 1 repeatedly until you are left
with only single tabs. Then set search to find 1 tab and
replace with nothing and advance the find one tab at a
time and manually execute a replace on the illegitimate
ones. This would greatly reduce your number of keystrokes
and decisions about legitimate versus illegitimate tabs.

Hope this helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you talking about tab stops or tab characters? If tab stops, then you
can Ctrl+A, Format | Tabs: Clear All. If tab characters, search for ^t and
replace with nothing.