The first tab in the document doesn’t fulfill that requirement. The tab must be preceded by a paragraph mark.

In plain English, this task says: When encountering a paragraph mark followed by a tab, replace both characters with only a paragraph mark.

When prompted, confirm the task (twice, if necessary).įigure A We’ll use Replace to remove any tab at the beginning of a paragraph.Īs you can see, I’ve enabled Show/Hide (on the Home tab in the Paragraph group) so you can see the tab and paragraph marks.įigure B shows the resulting document only one tab wasn’t removed.

In the Replace With control enter ^p ( Figure A).

On the Home tab, click the Editing dropdown in the Editing group and then choose Replace.

Let’s work through a quick example using the document shown in Figure A: In this case, searching for every tab using ^t alone won’t work because doing so would find every tab instead of only the tabs following a paragraph mark. Fortunately, you can use Word’s Replace feature if you know the special codes to use: Besides being tedious, it isn’t a good use of your time. In a long document, nobody has the time to manually delete a tab used to indent every paragraph in the document. How to remove tabs using Replace in Microsoft Word Word Online doesn’t support macros or the special Replace codes. (I recommend that you not upgrade to Windows 11 until all the kinks are worked out unless you have a specific reason for doing so.) For your convenience, you can download the demonstration. I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system. SEE: 83 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic) In this article, I’ll show you two ways to remove a tab at the beginning of each paragraph: Replace and a VBA procedure. Regardless of how the tabs got there, you might want to remove them. Even if not, you might prefer block style, which uses no indent at the beginning of each paragraph. In a one-off document, it won’t usually matter, but in a document that’s often updated, these tabs can cause trouble. Many Microsoft Word users insert a tab at the beginning of each paragraph. Windows 11: Tips on installation, security and more (free PDF) Windows 11 SE: Why it's both more and less locked down than Windows 10 S Windows Server IoT 2022 is for a lot more than Internet of Things Windows 11 cheat sheet: Everything you need to know Illustration: Lisa Hornung, Getty Images/iStockPhoto Windows: Must-read coverage But in a long document, that could be a nightmare. Sometimes you want to remove those tabs that indent your paragraphs. How to remove tabs used to indent paragraphs in a Word document

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