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Two different spaces and search order
If I click on Show/Hide I can see two different spaces in my headings.
One is represented by a small black dot, which I believe is the norm. The other is represented by a raised small circle. This becomes bothersome in sorting, as the black dots sort ahead of the small circles. Does anyone know why the small circles occur and how to avoid them? Doing a find and replace is not a practical solution as this is a recurring problem. |
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Two different spaces and search order
The feint dot is a standard space; the raised circle is a hard space
(non-breaking space) that is inserted by Ctrl+Shft+Space. The hard space is used to keeps words together. For example, if you don't want a date (e.g. 25 Jan 2012) to break at the end of a line, you use hard spaces between 25, Jan and 2012 so that it stays all on one line or if it has to break, the whole date moves to the next line. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Judy" wrote in message ... If I click on Show/Hide I can see two different spaces in my headings. One is represented by a small black dot, which I believe is the norm. The other is represented by a raised small circle. This becomes bothersome in sorting, as the black dots sort ahead of the small circles. Does anyone know why the small circles occur and how to avoid them? Doing a find and replace is not a practical solution as this is a recurring problem. |
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Two different spaces and search order
Nonbreaking spaces are often seen in text copied from the Web (or emails)
since HTML converts ordinary spaces to nonbreaking ones whenever there is more than one in succession (as when users press the Spacebar twice at the end of a sentence). If this is not done, HTML renders any number of spaces as a single space. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... The feint dot is a standard space; the raised circle is a hard space (non-breaking space) that is inserted by Ctrl+Shft+Space. The hard space is used to keeps words together. For example, if you don't want a date (e.g. 25 Jan 2012) to break at the end of a line, you use hard spaces between 25, Jan and 2012 so that it stays all on one line or if it has to break, the whole date moves to the next line. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Judy" wrote in message ... If I click on Show/Hide I can see two different spaces in my headings. One is represented by a small black dot, which I believe is the norm. The other is represented by a raised small circle. This becomes bothersome in sorting, as the black dots sort ahead of the small circles. Does anyone know why the small circles occur and how to avoid them? Doing a find and replace is not a practical solution as this is a recurring problem. |
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Two different spaces and search order
On Sep 16, 11:37*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Nonbreakingspacesare often seen in text copied from the Web (or emails) since HTML converts ordinaryspacesto nonbreaking ones whenever there is more than one in succession (as when users press the Spacebar twice at the end of a sentence). If this is not done, HTML renders any number ofspaces as a single space. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... The feint dot is a standard space; the raised circle is a hard space (non-breaking space) that is inserted by Ctrl+Shft+Space. The hard space is used to keeps words together. For example, if you don't want a date (e.g. 25 Jan 2012) to break at the end of a line, you use hardspaces between 25, Jan and 2012 so that it stays all on one line or if it has to break, the whole date moves to the next line. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Judy" wrote in message .... If I click on Show/Hide I can seetwodifferentspacesin my headings. One is represented by a small black dot, which I believe is the norm. The other is represented by a raised small circle. This becomes bothersome in sorting, as the black dots sort ahead of the small circles. Does anyone know why the small circles occur and how to avoid them? Doing a find and replace is not a practical solution as this is a recurring problem.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for these two posts that explain clearly the two different types of spaces. I have a document, which is a table of one column. Each cell has Heading 1 with this format: 2009 09 22 tu 1130 Meeting. All the spaces are ordinary spaces. If I type this Heading 1: 2009 09 22 z 1130 all the spaces are ordinary until I add a space after 1130. As soon as I add the space after 1130, the space between z and 1130 automatically converts to a non-breaking space. |
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