I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of the
data after that?

Thank you

Pam,

What do you mean by row? Is your document a table? Is each line as
single line paragraph? You may (should) be able to do a simple find
and replace operation. EditReplace. Type five spaces in the find
field and leave the replace with field blank. Click replace all.

I'm sorry, I should have gone with my first instinct and
been more specific. It's not in table form. The data row
has 5 spaces and then more spaces and more data and more
spaces and more data. Therefore, I couldn't couldn't
just do a find and replace as you mentioned. I only need
to remove the 5 spaces at the beginning of each row.
It's not a paragragh - It's a row of unique data and then
the next row is unique data and so on.

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Pam,

What do you mean by row? Is your document a table? Is
each line as single line paragraph? You may (should) be
able to do a simple find and replace operation.
EditReplace. Type five spaces in the find
field and leave the replace with field blank. Click
replace all.

Select the text, change the text alignment to Center, and then back to
Left again and Word should trim the leading spaces.

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"Pam" wrote in message
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I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of the
data after that?

Thank you

Ctrl+A to select all the text. Ctrl+E to center it. Then Ctrl+L to
left-align it again. If this doesn't work (though it should), and if there
are no runover lines, you can use column-select (press Alt while clicking
and dragging) to select the column of spaces, then delete them.

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"Pam" wrote in message
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I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of the
data after that?

Thank you

Thank you very much - It worked!
-----Original Message-----
Select the text, change the text alignment to Center,
and then back to
Left again and Word should trim the leading spaces.

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Requests for
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"Pam" wrote in
message
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I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only
the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of
the
data after that?

Thank you


.

Thank you very much - It worked!
-----Original Message-----
Ctrl+A to select all the text. Ctrl+E to center it. Then
Ctrl+L to
left-align it again. If this doesn't work (though it
should), and if there
are no runover lines, you can use column-select (press
Alt while clicking
and dragging) to select the column of spaces, then
delete 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.

"Pam" wrote in
message
...
I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only
the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of
the
data after that?

Thank you

.

You're welcome. :-)

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"Pam" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much - It worked!

-----Original Message-----
Select the text, change the text alignment to Center,
and then back to
Left again and Word should trim the leading spaces.

Word's ability to jettison the spaces when you center the text is a neat
trick. I have always done it manually, but by holding the Alt key down while
using the mouse to select the left-most portion of the text.

This centering trick is faster & easier for left padded spaces. I think the
Alt-left click & drag approach is still the only way to select a column of
text within the body of other text - in an ASCII report for instance.

"Pam" wrote:

I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of the
data after that?

Thank you

I never heard of the word "jettison"
-----Original Message-----
Word's ability to jettison the spaces when you center
the text is a neat
trick. I have always done it manually, but by holding
the Alt key down while
using the mouse to select the left-most portion of the
text.

This centering trick is faster & easier for left padded
spaces. I think the
Alt-left click & drag approach is still the only way to
select a column of
text within the body of other text - in an ASCII report
for instance.

"Pam" wrote:

I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only
the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of
the
data after that?

Thank you

.

Jettison: to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering: Discard

Although in this context I believe "trim" is the correct term. :-)

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"Pam" wrote in message
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I never heard of the word "jettison"

-----Original Message-----
Word's ability to jettison the spaces when you center
the text is a neat
trick.