But what if you want two spaces between sentences and only 1 between the
words?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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There's no real need to limit the spaces at all
( ){2,}
replace with
\1
will remove all additional spaces

See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
If there are more than two spaces between words, it could be done in
one fell swoop using a wildcard specification. For example, with Use
Wildcards checked, assuming no more than 10 [accidental] spaces:

Find what: {2,10} i.e., space{2,10}, which means find 2 to 10
spaces
Replace with: space, which means replace the find what with
a single space

There's no reason to limit it to 10, but I would think it unlikely
that you'd have more than 10 spaces -- accidentally -- between words.
As a practical matter, it might never be more than 3 or 4.


Wouldn't you have to do it multiple times until you didn't find 2
adjacent spaces. Lets say you had 3 spaces between words
(accidently, of course), scanning and replacing 1 time would leave
you with 2 spaces where there were
3 or 3 spaces were there were 4, etc. until you didn't find 2
adjacent spaces
anymore.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

You can use Find/Replace. Assuming you never want two spaces to
occur, you
can change " " to " " (the first is two spaces, the second is a
single space), and tell the Replace dialog to Replace All.

If there are times when you'd like two spaces, then you'd have to
work out
the circumstances, and it's possible that a Wildcard Find/Replace
could do
the job.

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"GKW in GA" wrote in message
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Is there a way to remove extra spaces between words so there is
only one
space between them