Hi Paul,

thanks for looking into this.

I cannot share the original document with you but will try to fix up an obfuscated version if required.

For now this should suffice:

• I recently upgraded to MS Office 2016 and updated SDL Trados 2017 to SR1. I only noticed "positional tabs" after this.
• So far I saw it only in documents of 1 client (a large EU body who probably generates its docs automatically from a db)
• I just noticed that it only happens with the WordprocessingML v. 2 importer (2007-2016) and not with Word 2007 v 2.0.0.0 (2007-2013). I might have used the latter exclusively before the update.
• The relevant generated sdlxliff for one of the affected tu looks like this:
  <trans-unit id="07ef7ff8-1ce6-4442-aa08-7fc170374b21"><source><x id="7"/><x id="8"/>PROVISIONAL TEXT OF 14/03/2018</source><seg-source><mrk mtype="seg" mid="3"><x id="7"/><x id="8"/>PROVISIONAL TEXT OF 14/03/2018</mrk></seg-source><target> ...
  
  where tags 7 and 8 are ( is the positionaltab):
  <tag id="7"><ph name="42" word-end="false" seg-hint="IncludeWithText">&lt;field name=&quot;Page&quot; value=&quot;42&quot;/&gt;</ph><props><value key="FieldTagId">7</value><value key="HasNonTranslatableTypeSection">False</value><value key="FieldType">PAGE</value><value key="ComplexFieldStartSection">&lt;w:r&gt;&lt;w:fldChar w:fldCharType=&quot;begin&quot;/&gt;&lt;/w:r&gt;&lt;w:r&gt;&lt;w:instrText xml:space=&quot;preserve&quot;&gt; PAGE  \* Arabic \* MERGEFORMAT &lt;/w:instrText&gt;&lt;/w:r&gt;&lt;w:r&gt;&lt;w:fldChar w:fldCharType=&quot;separate&quot;/&gt;&lt;/w:r&gt;</value><value key="TagType">Field</value><value key="ComplexFieldEndSection">&lt;w:r w:rsidR=&quot;00891EBC&quot; w:rsidRPr=&quot;00891EBC&quot;&gt;&lt;w:rPr&gt;&lt;w:rStyle w:val=&quot;FooterCharacterStyle&quot;/&gt;&lt;w:noProof/&gt;&lt;/w:rPr&gt;&lt;w:t&gt;42&lt;/w:t&gt;&lt;/w:r&gt;&lt;w:r&gt;&lt;w:rPr&gt;&lt;w:rStyle w:val=&quot;FooterCharacterStyle&quot;/&gt;&lt;w:noProof/&gt;&lt;/w:rPr&gt;&lt;w:fldChar w:fldCharType=&quot;end&quot;/&gt;&lt;/w:r&gt;</value></props></tag>
  <tag id="8"><ph name="pos tab" word-end="false" seg-hint="IncludeWithText">&lt;positionaltab/&gt;</ph><props><value key="&lt;positionaltab/&gt;">&lt;w:ptab w:relativeTo=&quot;margin&quot; w:alignment=&quot;center&quot; w:leader=&quot;none&quot;/&gt;</value></props></tag>
  
  and the document xml where it comes from is (it's actually in the 1st footer):
  <w:p w:rsidR="003B147B" w:rsidRDefault="003B147B"><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val="Footer"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin"/></w:r><w:r><w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> PAGE  \* Arabic \* MERGEFORMAT </w:instrText></w:r><w:r><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="separate"/></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="00891EBC" w:rsidRPr="00891EBC"><w:rPr><w:rStyle w:val="FooterCharacterStyle"/><w:noProof/></w:rPr><w:t>42</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:rStyle w:val="FooterCharacterStyle"/><w:noProof/></w:rPr><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/></w:r><w:r><w:ptab w:relativeTo="margin" w:alignment="center" w:leader="none"/></w:r><w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">PROVISIONAL TEXT OF </w:t></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="005A096E"><w:t>14/03/2018</w:t></w:r></w:p>
  

From what I can see it is the run with the tab (in blue bold) which is rendered as the "positional tab".

Kind regards
Angela

Paul, you should be able to create it by yourself - just use a TAB in a line and set the tab's particular position on the horizontal ruler:

Hi Angela Sigee

Unknown said:

I now have a file for troubleshooting but can't see how I can get it to you via this forum.

Hi Paul,

here is the file plus a screenshot of it in Studio

postab example.docx