[JimEagleOne]

Take the following text:

"hydro-plane sport test"

I want to delete the text "plane ", INCLUDING the space after it so that the
result would look like:

"hydro-sport test"

If I select that text and try to delete it, Word forces an automatic space
after the hypen foiling my editing attempts so that it looks like:

"hydro- sport test"

How do I turn that feature off? I'm trying to do this with macros for a
massive about of editing, and I cannot seem to turn this automation off. What
can I do?

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... jim ..

[Graham Mayor]

If you use the replace function to replace plane[space] with nothing then
there is no problem and as you intend to do this from a macro, there is no
need to press the delete key!

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


JimEagleOne wrote:
Take the following text:

"hydro-plane sport test"

I want to delete the text "plane ", INCLUDING the space after it so
that the result would look like:

"hydro-sport test"

If I select that text and try to delete it, Word forces an automatic
space after the hypen foiling my editing attempts so that it looks
like:

"hydro- sport test"

How do I turn that feature off? I'm trying to do this with macros for
a massive about of editing, and I cannot seem to turn this automation
off. What can I do?

[JimEagleOne]

I've tried it using a macro to select and delete it. I doesn't work for me.
Manual search and replace might work, but select and delete does not. The
problem is that I am not looking for explicit text to delete. When I am using
the macro, it's done by character count. I can actually watch the macro
select the block of text when I single step through the code, but somehow it
doesn't prevent Word from inserting another space.
--
... jim ..


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If you use the replace function to replace plane[space] with nothing then
there is no problem and as you intend to do this from a macro, there is no
need to press the delete key!

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


JimEagleOne wrote:
Take the following text:

"hydro-plane sport test"

I want to delete the text "plane ", INCLUDING the space after it so
that the result would look like:

"hydro-sport test"

If I select that text and try to delete it, Word forces an automatic
space after the hypen foiling my editing attempts so that it looks
like:

"hydro- sport test"

How do I turn that feature off? I'm trying to do this with macros for
a massive about of editing, and I cannot seem to turn this automation
off. What can I do?

[Graham Mayor]

Without seeing your code it is difficult to suggest a workaround, but I am
killing time waiting for a flight to go on holiday so will not be around to
see your reply.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


JimEagleOne wrote:
I've tried it using a macro to select and delete it. I doesn't work
for me. Manual search and replace might work, but select and delete
does not. The problem is that I am not looking for explicit text to
delete. When I am using the macro, it's done by character count. I
can actually watch the macro select the block of text when I single
step through the code, but somehow it doesn't prevent Word from
inserting another space.

If you use the replace function to replace plane[space] with nothing
then there is no problem and as you intend to do this from a macro,
there is no need to press the delete key!

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


JimEagleOne wrote:
Take the following text:

"hydro-plane sport test"

I want to delete the text "plane ", INCLUDING the space after it so
that the result would look like:

"hydro-sport test"

If I select that text and try to delete it, Word forces an automatic
space after the hypen foiling my editing attempts so that it looks
like:

"hydro- sport test"

How do I turn that feature off? I'm trying to do this with macros
for a massive about of editing, and I cannot seem to turn this
automation off. What can I do?