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Update Feb 2020: In the category of ‘very handy’ is this trick to replace multiple leading and trailling spaces at the beginning and/or end of a line: Centre the paragraph (Ctrl+e), then change the alignment back to what you had before (Ctrl+l for left aligned, Ctrl+j for fully justified). Single sentence space vis double spacing is one of those details that people can get overly excited about. You can still choose your own preference or stop the checks completely. Now the default is set at a single space at the end of a sentence, not two spaces.
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I tested it in a sentence where I’d typed two, three, four, five, and six spaces between words and it replaced each instance with a single space in one pass. Microsoft has changed sentence spacing default setting in Word 365. If you choose it, ^w will get added to the Find field (NOTE: It’s not a valid character for the Replace field). So, where does the ^w come from and what does it represent? If you put your cursor into the Find field, then click More in the Find and Replace dialog, then click Special, you’ll see White space at the bottom of the list. In the Navigation Pane, please click the Pages tab, and then click the specified page you will move to end. NOTE: Avoid using Replace All, because ^w finds and replaces tab characters and soft hyphens-see Lene’s comment below, dated 29 March 2019. Enable the Navigation Pane by checking the Navigation Pane option on the View tab. Then select the tab that says Info in the left sidebar and click on Convert in the right pane. When the document opens, click on the File tab at the top-left corner. This ensures the file opens in the right software.
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Well, in the category of ‘you learn something new every day’, I’ve discovered that there’s a much easier way that doesn’t use wildcards, thanks to an attendee (Bill Cloud) at my presentation at the 2019 ACES Conference. Well, in the category of ‘you learn something new every day’, I’ve discovered that there’s a much easier way that doesn’t use wildcards, thanks to an attendee (Bill Cloud) at my presentation at the 2019 ACES Conference. I’ve written before about using wildcards in Word’s Find and Replace dialog box to replace multiple spaces with a single space. I’ve written before about using wildcards in Word’s Find and Replace dialog box to replace multiple spaces with a single space.