Well, there is a silver lining to the cloud. It gives you an excuse to do careful proofreading. And in fact, doesn't take as long as you'd think. I thought I'd be WEEKS removing every tab stop from my very long MS (210,000 words) but in fact it only took a couple of days. It was kind of fun, really.
I think I'm missing something. How do you know if the tab stops are still there?? It's just white space so how do you know if it's an indent or a tab?
In Word there's a little icon you can press to 'see' line breaks, tabs, etc. Ctrl+*. I don't know if OpenOffice or Libre have it. The only time I use it is when Word is doing something weird (so, about seventeen times a day) and I'm trying to figure out why.
I don't know what wordprocessing programme you use, but I use Pages on the Mac. When you choose "Show Invisibles" in the View menu, all of the spaces you've entered come in as blue notations. A blue dot means a space between words or symbols. A ¶ sign indicates the end of a paragraph or a blank space (shows you've pushed the return key.) And a ↵ sign indicates a tab stop. You just go through and delete them.
Oh dear! I better hope OpenOffice has a means of showing these and then go and check it did remove the tabs when I set the indents yesterday. Thanks. Phew! Looks like setting indents in OpenOffice does remove the tabs tops. Whilst finding that out, though, I discovered OpenOffice do something called Writer. I've just been using the standard WP from their office suite.
What program(s) do people use for word processing? I'm old-school MS Word and backup to a cloud drive.
Yes, I don't think you can go wrong with MS Word. The only reason I'm using a freebie is because the trial period on my copy of Word expired, and it now only operates as a 'read-only' program. I refuse to pay for something I can get free.
