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Copy Special (Text Windows)

Use this to copy a selection of text inserting tabs to split the text. This makes the text suitable for insertion into cells of a spreadsheet such as Excel, or tables in a word processor such as Microsoft Word.

  1. After selecting the text, from the menu select Edit | Copy Special | Tabbed Text.

Split items with tabs at

This controls where the tabs are inserted.

1 or more spaces Any group of spaces are replaced with a tab
2 or more spaces Any group of 2 or more spaces are replaced with a tab

Remove blank lines

When selected, any lines containing no text (i.e. blank) will not be copied to the clipboard.

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Updated on March 12, 2019

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