How to replace all tab characters in a file by sequences of white-spaces in intellij?

Question

Given a file in my project, I want to be able to replace all of the tab characters in the file with white spaces. Is there any way to do this in intellij?

Answer 1

Replace only tabs used for indentation

• Ctrl + Shift + A

• type "To Spaces" > Enter

Replace all tabs

• Ctrl + R
• check Regex
• Enter \t and spaces

• Replace all

Answer 2

Go to Edit | Convert Indents , and then choose To Spaces or To Tabs respectively. It's in the documentation: Changing identation