My experience is that that tab stops are not default tab stops. If
Publisher can handle a .pdf file, then I would convert the Access report to
.pdf and as Publisher is the final destination, I would take up the issue in
a publisher newsgroup

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> On a regular basis I inherit a membership report as an RTF file which
> has been exported from Access.
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> Robin Chapple