[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"data reporting" data wrote in message
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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