Is this what you are trying to do? http://www.computing.net/answers/office/transfering-tabs-word-to-notepad/5981.html
--- On Fri, 9/10/10, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> > Subject: [NF] Export indented text from Word doc to text with tabs > representing indentation > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, September 10, 2010, 12:55 PM > Any of you Word gurus know how to > accomplish the following? > > I have a bunch of Word docs that are essentially plain text > docs > with paragraphs of indented text. The indented text is > indented > using the paragraph indentation property vs. tab chars. > > The indentation was done by highlighting a block of text in > Word > and hitting the tab key so all the indentation is 100% > consistent > (and follows the default tab stops set every 1/2 inch, eg. > 0.5", > 1.0", 1.5", etc) > > I would like to export the content of these docs to regular > text > files and have the indentation replaced with tab chars. > > Is there a Word feature/setting that will allow me to do > this or > must I resort to VBA? > > Thanks, > Malcolm > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

