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Tab at 0.63 cm
Well, now it works on either machine. You can pick your favorite
explanation for what I wrote befo - Word was in some funky state and needed to be restarted. - Windows was in some funky state and needed to be rebooted. - I was in some funky state and needed to be rebooted. - Gremlins. I claim it was the fourth one. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! BTW, here's something I could do with a macro but couldn't find a way to do it from the Replace dialog: In every paragraph that has a tab stop at 2", delete that tab stop and insert one at 3" (effectively moving the tab stop). It looks like the dialog can only handle inserting tab stops, not deleting them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:30:13 -0800, "CyberTaz" wrote: Hello Jay- Now that I re-read the post I see where I misunderstood your point. Haven't really played with that issue, but it is interesting... although Word is bug-free, right Even more so based on what you reported back. Am curious as to what you find. Regards |:) "Jay Freedman" wrote: Hi Taz, I don't have any trouble locating tab characters either, using ^t. The trouble was in trying to locate text that has a particular tab stop in its paragraph formatting, whether or not there's a tab character leading to that tab stop. This involves clicking the Format button in the Find dialog, selecting Tab, and entering the kind of tab stop you want to find. Last night on my home PC it wouldn't find any text with, for instance, a 2" left-aligned tab stop even though the document does contain text like that. Today on my work PC, it finds it with no problem. Now I don't know what's going on... more results later. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org CyberTaz wrote: Hi Jay- FWIW, I've found no problem locating default or custom tabs with the ^t (Word 2003 or 2002) _unless_ the tab is the result of Bullets & Numbering. It does, oddly enough, find tabs in a TOC. Regards |:) "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 01:21:25 -0000, "Geoff" wrote: [snip] Incidentally, how would I search for a tab character? The Format button in the Replace dialog seems only to permit searching for a tab stop (but then the search fails to find anything). Also, Ctrl-Tab doesn't enter a tab character. Thanks again for the leads. I thought you might like to know where they took me. Geoff I'll let Shauna answer the important part of your question, since she knows a lot more than I about numbering and styles. Regarding the Replace dialog, it will search for a tab character if you put the code ^t in the Find What box. If you don't remember the code, click the More button, then the Special button, and select Tab Character from the list. When I used the Format button and selected Tab to define a tab stop to search for, it didn't find the tab stops in the document. I think that's a bug. However, I was able to do it with a macro like this: Sub FindTabStop() Dim oRg As Range Set oRg = ActiveDocument.Range With oRg.Find .ClearFormatting .Text = "" .ParagraphFormat.TabStops.Add _ Position:=InchesToPoints(2), _ Alignment:=wdAlignTabLeft .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchWildcards = False If .Execute Then oRg.Select End If End With End Sub The macro recorder won't correctly create this kind of macro. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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