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1. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
Salah Fadlabi Jan 28, 2014 1:50 PM (in response to straightlife)Instead of tabs use Fisrt Line Indent for your text paragaraph style. it's easy and fast and when change the paragraph style setting it reflected on all text that apply the paragraph.
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2. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
straightlife Jan 28, 2014 1:52 PM (in response to Salah Fadlabi)Good idea. Thanks. But I think it's too late for me. I'd have to do a global search and replace to get rid of tab stops and then I'd have to change the style.
And I don't want to do that. Maybe I'll wind up doing it.
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3. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
P Spier Jan 28, 2014 2:10 PM (in response to straightlife)The search is pretty easy. Use the GREP tab and search for ^\t+ and replace with nothing. That finds one or more tabs at the start of a paragraph.
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4. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
rob day Jan 28, 2014 3:15 PM (in response to straightlife)Here's an example of (one of many) problems that using tabs as indents can cause, so Peter's grep find and replace is worth doing.
The column on the left uses tab indents but looks like it has one paragraph because I forgot to add a tab and you can't see where the 2nd paragraph starts. The column on the right always indents consistently because the indent is part of the style:
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5. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
straightlife Jan 28, 2014 3:17 PM (in response to rob day)Ohhhh, okay!
Seriously, thanks guys!
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6. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
straightlife Jan 28, 2014 3:29 PM (in response to rob day)Well that was easy, but I had to search for
\t
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7. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
P Spier Jan 28, 2014 3:36 PM (in response to straightlife)Searching for just \t will find every tab in your text. That's not what you want. you want only tabs at the start of a paragraph. For that you use ^\t+
The ^ (hold shift and press the 6 key) is the start of paragraph position marker, the \t is a tab, and the + after it says match one or more in a row.
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8. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
straightlife Jan 28, 2014 6:02 PM (in response to P Spier)But when I entered the series you gave me, I got "not found." I don't believe there were any other tabs in my text besides those at the start of paragraphs. I just purposely entered a tab and did a search for it using your string and it did appear. So I guess there aren't any.
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9. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
MW Design Jan 28, 2014 6:17 PM (in response to straightlife)The reason you may not have had success with Peter's Find/Replace string is because of not selecting the GREP tab in the Find/Replace box. GREP F/R strings are different than the first tab in the F/R dialog.
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10. Re: tab stops: Ooops. Nevermind.
P Spier Jan 28, 2014 11:41 PM (in response to MW Design)Yeah, I get the not found thing all the time and it usally takes me a couple of minutes to look at which tab in Find/Change is active. Someday I'll learn to check that first.





