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Subject:Re: remove spaces from Word From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>, yehoshua paul <ysp10182 -at- gmail -dot- com>, phil stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:58:06 -0700 (PDT)
If you're editing a doc that someone else did, don't do a "replace all." Bite the bullet and actually look at each instance where the search string is found, and manually trigger the replacements. If you don't, then as sure as the world, you will find out too late that the original author had at least one place where a string of blank spaces was used to set up indentation or centering of text. If you do a "replace all" someone later will find the place where that long string of blanks was removed and now there is content that is misaligned.
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From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: yehoshua paul <ysp10182 -at- gmail -dot- com>; phil stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>
Cc: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:24 AM
Subject: RE: remove spaces from Word
yehoshua paul wrote:
> 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.
Works in any version of Word -- and any other word processor I can think of. Just remember to run it multiple times in case there are instances of three, four, or more spaces. Run it until Words tells you the Find string wasn't found.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-903-6372
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