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Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil |
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What annoying business? Word doesn't produce two spaces between words. Where
are you seeing them? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil |
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I didn't realize my "business typing" class, which I took ca. 1968, was all
that close to the Industrial Revolution. ;-) We were taught to space twice after sentence-ending punctuation. This was to improve readability when using fixed pitched fonts. It wasn't until 1988, when I began writing for publishers that I was told that two spaces were verboten when using proportionally spaced fonts. Hence, all of my publishing clients since that time have insisted on single spaces between sentences. Even so, many who were taught to type in the 1960s and earlier, but who never wrote professionally, were never taught the single-spacing rule when using proportional spacing. 40+ years of habit are hard to overcome, and when they moved to word processors, they simply kept on doing what they'd already done. You *can* tell Word's grammar to mark 1 or 2 spaces as a "grammar" error, if you like. Tools - Options - Spelling & Grammar - Settings. But, getting others to use a single space is awfully hard to do. I've given up trying to convert others, and simply routinely replace all double spaces with single spaces when I receive document from typewriter-trained colleagues. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil |
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It's everywhere, by default. Two spaces. Like this. Have to go into every paragraph and remove one of the spaces manually. Herb is right. 2 spaces no mo' "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What annoying business? Word doesn't produce two spaces between words. Where are you seeing them? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil |
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Word never introduces spaces where you don't press the spacebar. If you are
dealing with a document received from someone else, you can remove the extra spaces by searching for two spaces and replacing with one. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Hi It's everywhere, by default. Two spaces. Like this. Have to go into every paragraph and remove one of the spaces manually. Herb is right. 2 spaces no mo' "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What annoying business? Word doesn't produce two spaces between words. Where are you seeing them? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil |
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Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:07:03 -0800 from Soccerman58 Soccerman58
@discussions.microsoft.com: It's everywhere, by default. Two spaces. Like this. Have to go into every paragraph and remove one of the spaces manually. Any particular reason you choose to do this the hard way rather than use Edit Replace Replace All? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "Do I smell the revolting stench of self-esteem?" -- Jon Lovitz, in /The Producers/ (2005) |
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No, not really, other than I don't usually use Word and haven't since FrameMaker came along. In Word's possible defense (not that it's my job to defend it), the Word docs that I usually get come from Engineering, and they are usually a hellacious formatting mess, so I end up trying to clean up a doc written in a format that I know little or nothing about. But, if you're a Frame user, it's a waste of time trying to tell someone who has used Word for 10 years that it's horrible. I'm sure they would find Frame equally horrible and unfriendly. To each his own, I guess. I'm just glad we have these forums. Thanks Phil "Stan Brown" wrote: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:07:03 -0800 from Soccerman58 Soccerman58 @discussions.microsoft.com: It's everywhere, by default. Two spaces. Like this. Have to go into every paragraph and remove one of the spaces manually. Any particular reason you choose to do this the hard way rather than use Edit Replace Replace All? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "Do I smell the revolting stench of self-esteem?" -- Jon Lovitz, in /The Producers/ (2005) |
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:52:04 -0800, "Soccerman58"
wrote: Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil Phil, I don't believe the double-spacing (between sentences, BTW, not between words) is a product of the software. People who learned to type on manual machines are used to the "mono" fonts, that did not automatically adjust or kern inter-letter spacing. Adding the extra space after a sentence helped to set sentences apart, and the double-spacing remains as a function of the keyboarder, not the program. Blessed be, for sure... |
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Eeek, red face. Yes, I meant between sentences. I looked into using find and
replace, but in my Find dialog box there is no option for finding two spaces. In fact, there are no options to find anything at all. "Jim" wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:52:04 -0800, "Soccerman58" wrote: Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil Phil, I don't believe the double-spacing (between sentences, BTW, not between words) is a product of the software. People who learned to type on manual machines are used to the "mono" fonts, that did not automatically adjust or kern inter-letter spacing. Adding the extra space after a sentence helped to set sentences apart, and the double-spacing remains as a function of the keyboarder, not the program. Blessed be, for sure... |
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In the "Find what" box press the spacebar twice. In the "Replace with" box,
press the spacebar once. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Eeek, red face. Yes, I meant between sentences. I looked into using find and replace, but in my Find dialog box there is no option for finding two spaces. In fact, there are no options to find anything at all. "Jim" wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:52:04 -0800, "Soccerman58" wrote: Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil Phil, I don't believe the double-spacing (between sentences, BTW, not between words) is a product of the software. People who learned to type on manual machines are used to the "mono" fonts, that did not automatically adjust or kern inter-letter spacing. Adding the extra space after a sentence helped to set sentences apart, and the double-spacing remains as a function of the keyboarder, not the program. Blessed be, for sure... |
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Well, that will solve the problem for the inherited documents. But if I am going to have to use Word regularly I need to set it up so that the default is to one space between words and not two, otherwise every document I type I will have to go back and fix. Can I do that please? Thanks Phil "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the "Find what" box press the spacebar twice. In the "Replace with" box, press the spacebar once. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Eeek, red face. Yes, I meant between sentences. I looked into using find and replace, but in my Find dialog box there is no option for finding two spaces. In fact, there are no options to find anything at all. "Jim" wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:52:04 -0800, "Soccerman58" wrote: Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil Phil, I don't believe the double-spacing (between sentences, BTW, not between words) is a product of the software. People who learned to type on manual machines are used to the "mono" fonts, that did not automatically adjust or kern inter-letter spacing. Adding the extra space after a sentence helped to set sentences apart, and the double-spacing remains as a function of the keyboarder, not the program. Blessed be, for sure... |
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If you are getting two spaces between words or sentences, it's because you
are pressing the spacebar twice. This is NOT something Word does on its own. If you are doing this out of habit, you will just have to break yourself of the habit. If you want Word to help you, the best you can do is have Word mark it as wrong. In the Grammar Settings (Tools | Options | Spelling and Grammar), you can select whether you want one or two spaces between sentences. This has nothing to do with what you or Word produces, just what will be marked as incorrect. Note, however, that Word will consider any space following a period (or question mark or exclamation point) a space between sentences. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Hi Well, that will solve the problem for the inherited documents. But if I am going to have to use Word regularly I need to set it up so that the default is to one space between words and not two, otherwise every document I type I will have to go back and fix. Can I do that please? Thanks Phil "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the "Find what" box press the spacebar twice. In the "Replace with" box, press the spacebar once. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Soccerman58" wrote in message ... Eeek, red face. Yes, I meant between sentences. I looked into using find and replace, but in my Find dialog box there is no option for finding two spaces. In fact, there are no options to find anything at all. "Jim" wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:52:04 -0800, "Soccerman58" wrote: Hi Is there any way to stop this annoying business of two spaces between words? Granted, we used to do it that way, until about the time of the Industrial Revolution, but now we don't. Thanks Phil Phil, I don't believe the double-spacing (between sentences, BTW, not between words) is a product of the software. People who learned to type on manual machines are used to the "mono" fonts, that did not automatically adjust or kern inter-letter spacing. Adding the extra space after a sentence helped to set sentences apart, and the double-spacing remains as a function of the keyboarder, not the program. Blessed be, for sure... |
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