Hello,
a quick and dirty way I use in similar (rare) cases is a regular expression
replacement of some (temporarily inserted), selected, text with the literal:
Another way is to use the Tools panel - ASCII Table (Alt+A),
double click the leftmost item in the 9th row:
9 09 TAB &tab
(I had expected, the keyboard shortcut Alt+009 would work in PSPad too, but
apparently, it doesn't; maybe there are some overrides for this character (?).)
hth,
vbr
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