I'm editing a manuscript in the most recent version of Word. The author used 5 consecutive spaces instead of Tabs. I need to go through 300 pages to replace these. How do I do a Search and Replace for 5 consecutive spaces to be replaced with a tab?

When I use Whitespace search and replace with Tabs, it does everything, even spaces in between words. I need to be able to quantify the string of 5 spaces only.

• Moved by Youjun Tang 8 hours 30 minutes ago more related to suggestion forum

Hi

Does the Word 'Replace' dialog, with search set to '     '   (5 spaces), and the replace set to '^t' (Special Char - tab), not work for you? It works fine here without any interference to single spaced words etc.

BTW: this isn't the correct forum for this que

Hi Jasmine Bingham,

This forum is to discuss problems of Windows Forms. Your question is not related to the topic of this forum.

You can consider posting it in Word forum for better supports. Thanks.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=word

Best regards,
Youjun Tang