Remove tab characters in Pages document

I've searched this and found nothing. I imagine that's because I couldn't identify the right search criteria, and I assume what I want would be something quite simple. (Or maybe not?)
So I've drafted a paper in my favourite mindmapping app, and exported the mindmap to a .txt file. When I open the latter in Pages (or any other text app, for that matter) I have a heap of paragraphs most of which have a first line indent of at least one tab-space - some as many as maybe five tab-spaces. What I want is to quickly reformat the whole thing so that every line of every paragraph is fully left-justified - i.e. all tab spaces removed.
I know I can do that manually with 'Find-Replace > replace all', but what I'm hoping is that there's some applescript or automator action or something such that would mean I could do it with a couple of keystrokes.
Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Thanks again, Peter.
Text Soap reminded me of a freeware version of the same thing which I've used before, but had forgotten about. It's called PlainClip, and I've just reinstalled it.
But even better -
Some fantastic guy on Macscripter has been so kind as to build me an applescript for Pages, that will replace the first starting tab in each paragraph with a return, and remove all starting spaces and all other starting tabs. I can run it with a single keyboard shortcut, and it takes about 2 seconds! I'm stoked
Thanks for the help. I think I'm done.

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