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Subject:Re: remove spaces from Word From:yehoshua paul <ysp10182 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:phil stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:54:44 +0200
I am not familiar with Word for Mac 2008. But in Word 2010, 2007, and even
2003 for Windows what I would do would be a search and replace all. Search
for two spaces, and replace with one.
Yehoshua
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, phil stokes
<philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>wrote:
> Friends and experts,
>
> In unix I can remove extra spaces from a plain text file using a sed
> command like
>
> sed s/' \{2\}/ '/g
>
> and then outputting the result to a new file.
>
> I'm not seeing a similar function in the macros list for Word for Mac 2008.
>
> Disappointingly (but not unsurprisingly), Word's help returns "0 topics
> found" for the search string 'remove extra spaces'. ; \
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
> Best
>
> Phil
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