Just a couple of points he
1. Searching for a space will actually find nonbreaking spaces as well as
ordinary ones.
2. Eric *is* searching in Final view; that's the issue. The spaces he's
looking for are separated by deleted text. This doesn't seem to prevent Word
from finding the two spaces as long as he's only looking, but it does
prevent replacement.
The more I think about this, the more logical it is, really. In order to
replace the two spaces with one, Word would have to make some decision about
the deleted text that separates them, and the logical result would be to
delete it, but until that change is accepted, it can't actually be finally
deleted. I think that's the issue here.
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OK. In the Find and Replace dialog, Click the more button. Make sure
all
the check boxes (Match case, etc.) are clear; that the box after Search
in:
says document; and the one after Search: says all. Also make sure
there's
no formatting such as bold, under the find what box.
These descriptions may be a bit off. I don't have W2003 loaded, and W2007
is
a little bit different (for example, it does not have Search in).
Many people say that the Word's find function gets hung up and won't find
things that are clearly there. They solve this by shutting down Word and
starting it again. I'm not sure that this has ever happened to me. I
find
that I've usually forgotten to clear the boxes and formatting or that Word
has moved into a part of the document that has no result (headers and text
boxes--is that right, experts?). Of course, restarting Word does clear
the
boxes and formatting and such. Just takes a little longer.
A couple more things.
-Check to make sure that all of your spaces *are* spaces (and not
nonbreaking spaces--those little circles that show up when show hidden
characters is on).
-Run the find & replace in final view, not final showing markup.
Hope this helps,
PamC
Eric wrote:
Yes, that's what I did. Nothing unusual, just the straightforward Find,
which
worked, and then a straightforward Replace, which didn't work.
I used Find (control-F, or Edit/Find) with
Find what:spacespace
It found many instances of two spaces.
I then used Replace (control-H, or Edit/Replace) with:
Find what:spacespace
Replace:space
Replace could not find the double-spaces that Find had just found.
Replace doesn't *find* anything. It holds the text that will be inserted
in
place whatever Find has found. So in your case I'm guessing you want
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And what are you replacing it with?
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