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Subject:RE: tabs in Frame from Word conversion From:"Smith, Martin" <martin -dot- smith -at- encorp -dot- com> To:"'Michele Davis'" <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:16:03 -0600
Michele wrote "I am converting training materials from Word to Frame, and in
the Code
examples there are a million tabs, and it takes me forever to manually
remove the tabs. Is there an easier way to strip out the tabs?..."
One option would be to export the code examples from Word to a text file.
Then open text file with a programmer's file editor, such TextPad
(http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html) which sells for a scant $27.00.
Text pad allows you to convert tabs to spaces, as well as define the width
of each tab. You can also select and delete vertical blocks of text, which
can be really useful in some cases.
