

Selection. The following macro, TabsOut, searches for any hard return/tab combinations in your document (or your selected text) and removes the tab. (Actually, you would search for a paragraph mark followed by a tab this would then be replaced with a paragraph mark, thereby deleting the tab.)Ī quicker way to take care of this problem is to develop a macro to do it for you.

You could, however, use Find and Replace in order to search for tabs and remove them.

(Alternatively, you can right-click the selection and choose Paragraph from the context menu. Select the affected paragraphs and click the dialog launcher button (the little arrow on the bottom right) of the Paragraph group on the Page Layout tab this displays the Paragraph dialog box. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2010 on your computer and open the document that you want to edit. Some word processors require tabs in order to indent the first line of a paragraph Word does not.Ībout the only way to remove the unnecessary tabs is to go to the beginning of each of the paragraphs and press the Del key. I believe you are describing a hanging indent. This is a relatively simple task that should take less than a minute. If you frequently convert documents from a different word processor to Word, there is a good chance you must remove tabs inserted at the beginning of paragraphs.
