Trim Trailing Spaces Norman Zhang <norman.zhang[ at ]gmail.com> 08.06.2006 18:43:49 Hi, I have 2 Q's. 1. Does Word 2002 support trimming trailing spaces? 2. Does Word 2002 support conversation of double spaces to single space. (e.g., 2 spaces after period to 1 space) Regards, Norman Zhang

Re: Trim Trailing Spaces "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 08.06.2006 20:58:11 Both of these are things you can do with Edit > Replace. There isn't any separate function besides that. You probably want to look into the use of wildcards in the Replace dialog. See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Norman Zhang wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I have 2 Q's. > > 1. Does Word 2002 support trimming trailing spaces? > 2. Does Word 2002 support conversation of double spaces to single > space. (e.g., 2 spaces after period to 1 space) > > Regards, > Norman Zhang

Re: Trim Trailing Spaces "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> 08.06.2006 21:59:12 To trim both leading and trailing spaces in a paragraph, select the paragraph, change the paragraph alignment to centered, and then change the alignment back to left- or full-justified. Norman Zhang wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I have 2 Q's. > > 1. Does Word 2002 support trimming trailing spaces? > 2. Does Word 2002 support conversation of double spaces to single space. > (e.g., 2 spaces after period to 1 space) > > Regards, > Norman Zhang

Re: Trim Trailing Spaces Norman Zhang <norman.zhang[ at ]gmail.com> 08.06.2006 22:32:03 garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote: [Quoted Text] > To trim both leading and trailing spaces in a paragraph, select the > paragraph, change the paragraph alignment to centered, and then change > the alignment back to left- or full-justified. The spaces still affect how words fill each line. It was hoping Word 2002 has that feature as included in many low-end text editors.

Re: Trim Trailing Spaces "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> 08.06.2006 22:40:42 Leading spaces are extra spaces at the beginning of a paragraph. Trailing spaces are extra spaces at the end of a paragraph. I think you must be talking about extra spaces in the middle of a paragraph, in which case you can use Find and Replace to repeatedly search for two spaces and replace with one space until all of the extra spaces are gone. Norman Zhang wrote: [Quoted Text] > The spaces still affect how words fill each line. It was hoping Word > 2002 has that feature as included in many low-end text editors.

Re: Trim Trailing Spaces Norman Zhang <norman.zhang[ at ]gmail.com> 09.06.2006 00:22:05 Jay Freedman wrote: [Quoted Text] > Both of these are things you can do with Edit > Replace. There isn't any > separate function besides that. > > You probably want to look into the use of wildcards in the Replace dialog. > See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm. Thanks. This is very helpful.

Re: Trim Trailing Spaces Norman Zhang <norman.zhang[ at ]gmail.com> 09.06.2006 02:07:54 garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote: [Quoted Text] > Leading spaces are extra spaces at the beginning of a paragraph. > Trailing spaces are extra spaces at the end of a paragraph. I think > you must be talking about extra spaces in the middle of a paragraph, in > which case you can use Find and Replace to repeatedly search for two > spaces and replace with one space until all of the extra spaces are gone. I see your point. Thanks.