Block pasting

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Eveswell
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Block pasting

Post by Eveswell »

When selecting a block of text starting at one column position then copying and pasting it to a greater column position, the block text can be prepended with tabs. It would be useful if there was an option to prepend the block text with spaces.
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Eveswell
ak47wong
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Post by ak47wong »

You can do this as follows:
  1. Click View > Document Properties
  2. Click Tabulation
  3. Select Convert new tabs to spaces
Eveswell
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Post by Eveswell »

Thanks for the tip.
Best regards,
Eveswell
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