Can anyone tell me how to proof a Word document to automatically make sure
there are 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence? Thank you,

You could do a find and replace. Have it find instances of .(one space) and
replace it with .(two spaces). Don't do the (space) thing, just put the
actual spaces in. You could a find for as many spaces as you want. Just
make sure you put the period before.

"Trisha, Jerad's Mom" wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to proof a Word document to automatically make sure
there are 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence? Thank you,

I had seen that on my searching but I have XP Word 2002...I cannot find that
option on mine software...Is there an update for this option or would I have
to get a later version of Word? Thank you so much....

"Treesy" wrote:

You could do a find and replace. Have it find instances of .(one space) and
replace it with .(two spaces). Don't do the (space) thing, just put the
actual spaces in. You could a find for as many spaces as you want. Just
make sure you put the period before.

"Trisha, Jerad's Mom" wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to proof a Word document to automatically make sure
there are 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence? Thank you,

Yes, you do have the option in Word 2002. Edit | Find or Control-F will
bring up the Find dialog, click on Replace. You don't even need to click
More in the F&R dialog for this.

Note also that in Tools | Options, Spelling & Grammar, click on Settings,
you can tell Word to mark 1 space between sentences as incorrect. This is
probably better, as Treesy's formulation will miss sentences that end in ?
or ! and you would need either a wildcard that searched for all ending
punctuation, or do a few different Find&Replaces.


On 4/8/05 3:27 PM, "jeradsmom" wrote:

I had seen that on my searching but I have XP Word 2002...I cannot find that
option on mine software...Is there an update for this option or would I have
to get a later version of Word? Thank you so much....

"Treesy" wrote:

You could do a find and replace. Have it find instances of .(one space) and
replace it with .(two spaces). Don't do the (space) thing, just put the
actual spaces in. You could a find for as many spaces as you want. Just
make sure you put the period before.

"Trisha, Jerad's Mom" wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to proof a Word document to automatically make sure
there are 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence? Thank you,



--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Daiya, The tools options is just what I needed...THank you so much for taking
the time to reply....Jeradsmom

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Yes, you do have the option in Word 2002. Edit | Find or Control-F will
bring up the Find dialog, click on Replace. You don't even need to click
More in the F&R dialog for this.

Note also that in Tools | Options, Spelling & Grammar, click on Settings,
you can tell Word to mark 1 space between sentences as incorrect. This is
probably better, as Treesy's formulation will miss sentences that end in ?
or ! and you would need either a wildcard that searched for all ending
punctuation, or do a few different Find&Replaces.


On 4/8/05 3:27 PM, "jeradsmom" wrote:

I had seen that on my searching but I have XP Word 2002...I cannot find that
option on mine software...Is there an update for this option or would I have
to get a later version of Word? Thank you so much....

"Treesy" wrote:

You could do a find and replace. Have it find instances of .(one space) and
replace it with .(two spaces). Don't do the (space) thing, just put the
actual spaces in. You could a find for as many spaces as you want. Just
make sure you put the period before.

"Trisha, Jerad's Mom" wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to proof a Word document to automatically make sure
there are 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence? Thank you,



--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Glad to help.


On 4/8/05 3:49 PM, "jeradsmom" wrote:

Daiya, The tools options is just what I needed...THank you so much for taking
the time to reply....Jeradsmom

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Yes, you do have the option in Word 2002. Edit | Find or Control-F will
bring up the Find dialog, click on Replace. You don't even need to click
More in the F&R dialog for this.

Note also that in Tools | Options, Spelling & Grammar, click on Settings,
you can tell Word to mark 1 space between sentences as incorrect. This is
probably better, as Treesy's formulation will miss sentences that end in ?
or ! and you would need either a wildcard that searched for all ending
punctuation, or do a few different Find&Replaces.