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How do I remove all tabs from word document
I am trying to remove all the tabs from a word document. My problem is I
need to export the word document to a text file. However, when I export the word document to a text file, the tabs all become blank spaces. My text document needs to have certain data at specific locations, and these blank spaces are offsetting my data. In the example below, I need both fields to use 8 spaces, so that the lower case alpha characters start at column 9. I cannot remove all blank spaces, because I sometimes there will be blank fill. The alpha characters need to start at column 9 regardless if the size of the numeric field. In both of the lines below, the alpha characters start at column 9 (they just do not look that way). 12345 abc 12345678xyz |
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How do I remove all tabs from word document
You would do better if you started with a monospaced font such as Courier
New, so that you can see how it will layout. Text does not support font information. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org data reporting wrote: I am trying to remove all the tabs from a word document. My problem is I need to export the word document to a text file. However, when I export the word document to a text file, the tabs all become blank spaces. My text document needs to have certain data at specific locations, and these blank spaces are offsetting my data. In the example below, I need both fields to use 8 spaces, so that the lower case alpha characters start at column 9. I cannot remove all blank spaces, because I sometimes there will be blank fill. The alpha characters need to start at column 9 regardless if the size of the numeric field. In both of the lines below, the alpha characters start at column 9 (they just do not look that way). 12345 abc 12345678xyz |
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How do I remove all tabs from word document
To answer the question you asked (even though it may not, as macropod
suggests, be the information you need), remove all tab characters using Edit | Replace, searching for ^t and replacing with nothing (or with eight spaces if that's the requirement). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "data reporting" data wrote in message ... I am trying to remove all the tabs from a word document. My problem is I need to export the word document to a text file. However, when I export the word document to a text file, the tabs all become blank spaces. My text document needs to have certain data at specific locations, and these blank spaces are offsetting my data. In the example below, I need both fields to use 8 spaces, so that the lower case alpha characters start at column 9. I cannot remove all blank spaces, because I sometimes there will be blank fill. The alpha characters need to start at column 9 regardless if the size of the numeric field. In both of the lines below, the alpha characters start at column 9 (they just do not look that way). 12345 abc 12345678xyz |
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