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How can I use Find and Replace to change tab stop positions or clear tabs?
I have tabs throughout my document at 0.2, but I need to change them all to a position of 0.23. When I used Find and Replace, it added tabs at 0.23, but it failed to clear the 0.2 tabs. This despite ...
Create a style which includes a tab stop at the position you need. Obviously, the style should not include any other tab stops.
Then search for paragraphs with a 0.2" tab stop and replace it with the style you created.
This will apply the new style and, in the process, remove paragraph formatting which is not in the paragraph style.
I am saying you are doing things the HARD WAY. I do not think, other than by use of styles, it is possible to change tab stops. It is possible to change the number of tab characters. Please, please, please, look at the links I provided.
I'm dealing with a document that contains a great many existing tab stops throughout. As far as I can tell, merely learning to use styles for future documents will not help me solve this already-existing problem.