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/ vba_word_tabs_to_spaces_or_markdown
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January 19, 2019 19:51
VBA macro to paste into MS Word, which converts text lines with tab characters representing tables into tables without tab, but instead with values right-padded with spaces (markdown version too) so that to fit perfectly for usage of HTML <pre>...</pre>
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| Rem 1) select the text lines representing a table whose columns are separated by the tab character | |
| Rem 2) run this macro | |
| Rem 3) result: the tab characters are replaced by two or more space characters such a way each column | |
| Rem has the same number of characters | |
| Rem 4) you may then copy/paste those text lines inside HTML <pre>...</pre> it will look like a table | |
| Sub tabs_to_spaces() | |
| Dim par As Paragraph | |
| Dim pars() As Paragraph | |
| Dim arr(50) As Integer ' 50 tabs maximum per line |
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