Thanks loads!! BTW - Its not my choice to use tabs - I'm trying to get rid
of them, actually. They often arise in tab delimited files as you no doubt
know. AND I'm not looking to delete text between tabs - that was just an
example. I want to be able to delete text between "Here" (current curser
location) (and probably result of a Find action) and "There" (text string
xxx for example) (and result of another Find action). I was trying macros
(this operation must repeat hundreds of times in a long document) but it
doesn't seem to be able to "Select" and delete like I would expect. Now
comes Klaus with a most reasonable idea - use find and replace! Duh - I
don't know why I didn't think of this! I tried the example and it didn't
work immediately, but it sure gave me some ideas - so I now just do Find -
^t*^t and replace with [blank]. Seems to work, but am I missing something
by not using all those swear words ((^t)[!^13]@(^t)\1\2)??

Thanks again! (Wowser - there's a lot more power in the search&replace than
I had noticed!!)

Bob



"Klaus Linke" wrote in message
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Hi Bob,

Hmm... Professional Word users will tell you to avoid tabs altogether.
Then why should Word offer a special built-in function to delete stuff
between two tabs?

BTW, you can delete the stuff between the next two tabs with Find/Replace,
similar to the macro Greg posted:
Edit Replace, check "Match wildcards",
Find what: (^t)[!^13]@(^t)
Replace with: \1\2
You can use the macro recorder to create a macro from this without writing a
line of code.

If you have a "table" done with tabs, you can also use
Alt+LeftMouseButton+Drag to select a "column" and delete it.

Greetings,
Klaus


"InOverMyHead" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"Greg" wrote in message
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Bob,

You don't really need to select the text to delete it. Here is a macro
that finds text between the first and second tabs following the
insertion point and deletes the text while leaving the tabs.

Sub DeleteTextBetweenTabs()
Dim myRange As Range
Set myRange = Selection.Range
myRange.End = ActiveDocument.Range.End
With myRange.Find
.ClearFormatting
.MatchWildcards = True
.Text = "^t" & "*" & "^t"
.Execute
myRange.Start = myRange.Start + 1
myRange.End = myRange.End - 1
myRange.Delete
End With
End Sub

Thanks for the responses! But it sure sounds more complicated than it otta
be!!?!! . (And to think that in WordPerfect all I had to do was hit one
key
for "Select"!!) Let's assume for the moment - just for the sake of this
discussion - that I don't do programming, that I am a newbie (note
newsgroup
name) and I expect the Macro function to simply record keystrokes - then
play them back on command. From the responses, may I conclude I'm outa
luck
on the delete-between-tabs routine, and that this is beyond the ability of
Bill's programmers to build into this product?

(In fact, I would use variations of the delete-between-tabs routine often,
but each time it would use different from-to points. And I sure don't
want
to have to write a program for every macro I use.)

Bob