[bcab] Re: searching for, and replacing 'tabs' in ms word

Hi
Answered my own question - the caret is an escape character that allows you
to search for a character by ASCII number - 9 for tab, 13 for Enter, 12 for
Form feed or page break etc.

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David W Wood" <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: searching for, and replacing 'tabs' in ms word


> George:
> All I can say is that Barry's suggestion of ^9 worked!
>
> What for a <enter>?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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> Of George Bell
> Sent: 31 January 2007 16:57
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] Re: searching for, and replacing 'tabs' in ms word
>
> I'm a shade confused here, since someone mentioned ^9
>
> I've always used ^t for a tab, space bar for a normal space
> , and ^s for a non-breaking space.
>
> George.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 31 January 2007 16:10
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] searching for, and replacing 'tabs' in ms
> word
>
> All:
> Can someone please let me know how to do this?
>
> I want to replace 'tabs' with 'spaces'.
>
> TIA
>
> David W Wood
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