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Subject:Re: remove spaces from Word From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> To:salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com Date:Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:50:51 -0700
You can also turn on checking in the Word Grammar checker for this (Prefs > Spelling/Grammar > grammar settings > Spaces Required between sentences == 1). It won't stop you from habitually adding the two spaces in, but it will poke you with squiggly green lines when you do it.
Laura
On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Chris Morton wrote:
> Phooey. Usually this is just a need to replace the double-spacing after
> periods. As we all know, this is now a complete anachronism that went the
> way of Smith Coronas and Linotypes, yet *still *taught as gospel in high
> school typing, er, keyboarding classes everywhere. *;<)*
>
> Try a global search & replace on <*period*><*space*><*space*>, replacing
> these occurences with <*period*><*space*>.
>
>> Chris
>
> The one-click replace all operation is more often than not the path to more
>> work than it saves.
>>
>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/21/2013 7:24 AM, Combs, Richard wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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