Thank Paul and other for the great input and the code for the macros- a great help. Obviously there are other ways that might be even more efficient to accomplish what I had asked for, but for now, this works out well for me; that’s copying code directly from a Word document to IDLE.
I tried the 1st macro and it works very well. After running the macro, all I had to do is to replace tabs with the default number of space in IDEL

Thank you all again and best of luck.

EK Esawi

You could eliminate that step by changing every occurrence of vbTab with "__" (i.e a pair of double quotes with two spaces [or a different number of spaces] between them). For the first macro, you could even concatenate the vbTab, vbTab & vbTab etc. sets into single strings of "__", "____" and so on.

PS: I've inserted '_' characters because the board software deletes repeated spaces.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]