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.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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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.
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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
"Judy" wrote in message
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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.