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Find and Replace Character
Hi ... I have a very long text doc that has two spaces inserted after the
period at the end of each sentance (old schoold way), rather than one space that is now standard. I want to use the Find and Replace to change all of the double spaces into single spaces. Does anyone know the special character combination to do that? Thanks so much! -- Karen |
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Find and Replace Character
It doesn't take any special characters at all -- in the Find box,
press the spacebar twice (you won't see anything, but the cursor will move over), and in the Replace box, press the spacebar once. BTW repeat the "Replace All" command until it tells you "0 replacements," to take care of spots with more than two spaces. If by any chance you have double-spaces elsewhere in the document that you want to keep, you would type period space space, and then period space; and do it again for question mark and exclamation point. On May 13, 12:41*pm, Karen wrote: Hi ... I have a very long text doc that has two spaces inserted after the period at the end of each sentance (old schoold way), rather than one space that is now standard. I want to use the Find and Replace to change all of the double spaces into single spaces. Does anyone know the special character combination to do that? Thanks so much! -- Karen |
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Find and Replace Character
There is no need of any special character, just use spaces. HOWEVER, ...
... take GREAT CARE if you do this in Word 2007 SP2, as it could result in the loss of inline graphics bounded by spaces. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Karen" wrote in message ... Hi ... I have a very long text doc that has two spaces inserted after the period at the end of each sentance (old schoold way), rather than one space that is now standard. I want to use the Find and Replace to change all of the double spaces into single spaces. Does anyone know the special character combination to do that? Thanks so much! -- Karen |
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