How to prevent older versions from automatically converting tabs to spaces?

Ian Y

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  1. 2019
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  1. Windows
My colleagues who used Excel 2013/2016 told me that, after they pasted text into a cell, tabs in the text got converted to spaces automatically. My Excel 2019 does not have such an issue.

Is it possible to prevent the said automatic conversion from happening?
 

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