As Peter says, this is a bug that affects Word 2007 only. Like you, I use this replace operation all the time, and it's just one of many reasons I'm still doing production work in Word 2003.
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"DeanH" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Hello Peter, I saw this comment once somewhere before ages ago, tested it then, did not get the result that is described. Just tested again, <space><space> and it did not find the <space>InlineGraphic<space> that I had
set up for the test.
I am constantly using <space><space> for this exercise for the document I receive and have never come across this affect.
Wonder where this came from?
All the best
DeanH
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Note that some here have said that finding <space><space> will also
find <space>Inline graphic<space>, so you'd lose your pictures, if you
had any.
On Sep 29, 10:07 am, "Herb Tyson [MVP]" <[email protected]> wrote:
Ctrl+H.
Find what:<space><space>
Replace with:<space>
Replace all.
Note: <space> indicates that you should press the Space bar.
This presumes that two consecutive spaces are NEVER wanted. For
documents I
edit, this is always the case. I routinely do this find/replace when I >> > open
documents I'm asked to edit. (If a client wants two spaces after
sentence
terminators, I talk them out of it. When using proportional spacing, a >> > single space is the industry standard.)
It is possible to design a search to remove spaces only between words, >> > though.
With Use wildcards enabled:
Find what:([A-Z,a-z])( )([A-Z,a-z])
Replace with:\1 \3
Note that there are two spaces in the ( ) in Find what, and one space
between \1 and \3 in the Replace with.
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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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Web:http://www.herbtyson.com
"www.thewordsmith.biz" <[email protected]> >> > wrote in
messagenews:[email protected]....
Word 2003.
When editing long documents, such as a book manuscript, I need to
search
globally for double spaces between words, and replace them
automatically
with
single spaces.
How do I do that?-
Maybe it was a feature introduced with Word2007?
On Sep 30, 3:00 am, DeanH <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Peter, I saw this comment once somewhere before ages ago, tested it then, did not get the result that is described. Just tested again, <space><space> and it did not find the <space>InlineGraphic<space> that I had
set up for the test.
I am constantly using <space><space> for this exercise for the document I receive and have never come across this affect.
Wonder where this came from?
All the best
DeanH
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Note that some here have said that finding <space><space> will also
find <space>Inline graphic<space>, so you'd lose your pictures, if you had any.
On Sep 29, 10:07 am, "Herb Tyson [MVP]" <[email protected]> wrote:
Ctrl+H.
Find what:<space><space>
Replace with:<space>
Replace all.
Note: <space> indicates that you should press the Space bar.
This presumes that two consecutive spaces are NEVER wanted. For documents I
edit, this is always the case. I routinely do this find/replace when I open
documents I'm asked to edit. (If a client wants two spaces after sentence
terminators, I talk them out of it. When using proportional spacing, a single space is the industry standard.)
It is possible to design a search to remove spaces only between words, though.
With Use wildcards enabled:
Find what:([A-Z,a-z])( )([A-Z,a-z])
Replace with:\1 \3
Note that there are two spaces in the ( ) in Find what, and one space between \1 and \3 in the Replace with.
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web:http://www.herbtyson.com
"www.thewordsmith.biz" <[email protected]> wrote in messagenews:[email protected]....
Word 2003.
When editing long documents, such as a book manuscript, I need to search
globally for double spaces between words, and replace them automatically
with
single spaces.
How do I do that?--
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Word 2003.Thanks for this comment but you know about betta fish to get more information about fishes.
When editing long documents, such as a book manuscript, I need to search globally for double spaces between words, and replace them automatically with
single spaces.
How do I do that?
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