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]