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Quickly convert all tabs characters to spaces characters in Word

Author: Sun Last Modified: 2025-03-20

Normally when you need to convert all tabs to spaces characters or replace all tabs to spaces characters in document, you can quickly find and replace all tabs characters with spaces characters with Find and Replace command, however you might need to spend some time on how to replace all tabs with spaces in document. The Kutools for Word’s Tab to Space utility can quickly convert all tabs characters to spaces characters in the whole document or a part of the document in Word.

Convert all tab characters to space characters from the whole document

Convert all tab characters to space characters from a selection of the document

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Click Kutools > Convert > Tab to Space. See screenshot:

 convert tab to space feature of kutools


Convert all tab characters to space characters from the whole document

If you want to convert all tabs into spaces characters in a document as shown in the below screenshot, you can quickly get it done as follows:

sample document

1. Please apply the utility by clicking Kutools > Convert > Tab to Space.

 convert tab to space feature of kutools

2. After clicking Tab to Space, it will display a dialog. If you want to convert all Tab characters to Space characters in the whole document, please click Yes.

click yes in the prompt box

3. After clicking Yes, it will pop up a dialog which reminds you the result of the conversion. Click OK.

click ok in the prompt box

4. It will convert all tabs to spaces in the document as shown in the below screenshots.

original document
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all tabs are converted to spaces in document

Convert all tab characters to space characters from a selection of the document

If you only want to convert all tabs from a part of the document into space characters, you can get it done as follows:

1. Please highlight and select a part of the document you want to replace all tabs with spaces.

select part of the document

2. And then please apply the utility by clicking Kutools > Convert > Tab to Space.

3. All of the tab characters from the selection part of the document is converted to space characters. See screenshots:

original document
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select part of the selection

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