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Ok, if I tick just the convert new tabs to spaces in the text document class, copy the tabbed text, then paste, it comes in with spaces. If I then untick that same box, and do another paste, it comes in with tabs. Relatively painless. Helps that the configure menu remembers where you just were. Than...

Does the new document class have to have a different extension? Sounds like cobble #2, first impression. I tryed to create one, "tabs to spaces", and told it to use extension ".txt", and it warned me this was taken, so I cancelled out. Would I have to be creating separate files, ...

Hi s_reynisson, Thanks for quick response. I'm aware of the process for replacing regular expressions, things like double spacing paragraphs and the like. I was thinking of doing what you described, but thought, this is not really going to work, since the various tab symbols in my selection need to ...

I leave my printer output on Courier (new?), but like to set my display font to fixedsys, which again, is monospaced. It has a nice smooth, uncluttered look.

I'd like to leave my tabs in documents as they are, when creating them, or when saving the file. But sometimes, I'd like to convert the tabs to spaces in a specific, selected block of text. Is this possible?