How to insert tab into a table cell

[Lady Cygnus]

If you have a table in framemaker and want to decimal align you need to put in a tab character at the beginning of the cells by hitting ESC-Tab (at least this is what I've been told). If you have a bagillion of them to do is there a faster way to do this than tab ESC-tab, tab, ESC-tab, tab...

[AxialInfo]

There are some keyboard hotkey programs that work with FM; you could program the key sequence to an F-key that way. The only one that comes to mind is Autoit, but there are certainly others.

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand · Accepted solution]

Lady,

You could use the find/change to search for "\P" (start of paragraph) and change to "\t" (Tab).

Interestingly, if table cells are empty only every other table cell is found. But then you could find "\P\f" (start of paragraph, end of flow) to achieve this.

HTH,

- Michael

[Lady Cygnus]

This worked, it was still annoying but quite a bit better than the "tab-esc-tab"... 10 columns by 80+ rows took about 10 minutes. I couldn't indent first column so I had to watch it since for some reason it wouldn't work with a selection - otherwise it may have gone faster

Definitely easier on my left hand.