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Subject:Re: Spacing in Word XP From:Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
Can's you search for "period space any letter"? If you
*really* want to use two spaces after a period, that
is . . . <g, d, r>
Cheers,
Sean
--- Don Groseclose <dgroseclose1 -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
>
> I'm running into a lot of single spaces after
> periods in documents I'm
> editing and it takes forever to arrow-key through
> and count spaces. My eye
> isn't refined enough to catch them at a glance. Can
> Word XP search for
> instances of only one space rather than two at the
> end of sentences?