It sounds as though Word is using the AutoCorrect feature to switch your
input to an ISO date/time format. I never noticed that it used non-breaking
spaces before reading this thread. You can turn off the feature to test to
see if it stops occurring.
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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
"Judy" wrote in message
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On Nov 12, 7:37 am, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com
wrote:
My apologies, I did get the find and replace the wrong way round - you
should, of course, replace all ^s with space; I'm sorry if you find that
burdensome; you could record a macro to run which would be a little
easier.
I have told you what thedifferentspacestruly are. The non-breakingspaces
may - in some circumstances - be automatically added, but not, as far as I
know, when the language is set to English.
To enter them manually you press Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen, but it is possible you
have adifferentkey combination assigned which may be easier to
accidentally press. You can check by going to the Customize Keyboard
dialogue (in Word 2007: Office Button Word Options Customize tab
(keyboard) Customize button; in earlier versions: Tools Customize
Keyboard button) and scrolling down the left hand box ("Categories") to
select "Common Symbols" and then scrolling down the right hand box
("Commands") to select "Nonbreaking space") and then looking to see what
key
it says is assigned.
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Enjoy,
Tony
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"Judy" wrote in message
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On Nov 11, 4:28 pm, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com
wrote:
I can't tell you why you're getting them - are you copying and pasting
external text perhaps but the dot is a normal space and the circle is a
non-breaking space that you can use to stop lines breaking wher eyou
don't
want them to. You can use Find and Replace to change them all to normal
spaces: in the Find box enter a single space, and in the Replace box
enter
^s (caret, letter ess), and then press Replace All.
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Enjoy,
Tony
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"Judy" wrote in message
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I have a doc with a table where the first paragraph is in date form
like: 2008 10 11 z 1730 for 1800 B. By clicking on Show/Hide I can see
that there aretwodifferentkinds ofspaces: 2008*10*11
z&1730*for*1800&B, where * represents a space shown by a small black
dot and & a space shown by a small superscripted circle. In sorting a
* space comes before a & space. This can mess up the needed sort
order.
Can anyone tell me why I’m gettingtwodifferentspaces? I’m not
conscious of enteringdifferentspaces.
A. No copy and paste is involved. All are entered manually.
B. Find and Replace would be burdensome - not the solution in this
particular case. In fact replacing with ^s changes the dot to the
circle, which is the reverse of the need.
C. Surely someone knows what thesedifferentspacestruly are and
perhaps has an insight into how I’m managing to produce them.- Hide quoted
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Thanks, Tony, yes I suppose it will have to be a macro.
I’ve analysed what’s happening and it seems weird to me.
I type only a single line: 2008*10*11*z*1730
As soon as I add a space after 1730 the * before 1730 changes to &
2008*10*11*z&1730*
I’ve done nothing but enter straightforward keystrokes.