Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated "Bert Coules" <mail[ at ]bertcoules.co.uk> 10/22/2008 7:15:49 PM I have a document in Courier New in which some sentences are separated by two spaces after the full stop and some by one. I want to reformat it so that *all* full stops are followed by two spaces, but I can't work out how to do it. I can't simply search for "full stop + space" and replace with "full stop + two spaces" because the sentences that are already separated by two spaces will end up with three. Is there a wild character which represents "a character but not a space"? The only other way I've thought of is to replace both "full stop + space" and "full stop + two spaces" with just "full stop", and then replace "full stop" with "full stop + two spaces". This strikes me as clumsy and inelegant, but I suppose it should work. But surely there's a better way? Many thanks. Bert

Re: Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated Reitanos <reitanospa1[ at ]yahoo.com> 10/22/2008 7:24:37 PM There's probably a smarter way, but why not replace ". " (period single) with ". " (period double) and then replace all " " (triple) with " " (double) twice. Don't forget question and exclamation marks as well. On Oct 22, 3:15 pm, "Bert Coules" <m...[ at ]bertcoules.co.uk> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have a document in Courier New in which some sentences are separated by > two spaces after the full stop and some by one. > > I want to reformat it so that *all* full stops are followed by two spaces, > but I can't work out how to do it.  I can't simply search for "full stop + > space" and replace with "full stop + two spaces" because the sentences that > are already separated by two spaces will end up with three. > > Is there a wild character which represents "a character but not a space"? > > The only other way I've thought of is to replace both "full stop + space" > and "full stop + two spaces" with just "full stop", and then replace "full > stop" with "full stop + two spaces".  This strikes me as clumsy and > inelegant, but I suppose it should work.  But surely there's a better way? > > Many thanks. > > Bert

Re: Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated "Bert Coules" <mail[ at ]bertcoules.co.uk> 10/22/2008 7:29:23 PM Reitanos wrote: [Quoted Text] > There's probably a smarter way, but why not replace ". " (period > single) with ". " (period double) and then replace all " " (triple) > with " " (double) twice. Thanks for that. It does seem more elegant than my suggestion. > Don't forget question and exclamation marks as well. I had! Thanks. Bert

RE: Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated tedmi 10/22/2008 8:52:04 PM ^w will match any number of consecutive spaces and/or tabs. So replace .^w with . space space; repeat for !, ? -- TedMi "Bert Coules" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have a document in Courier New in which some sentences are separated by > two spaces after the full stop and some by one. > > I want to reformat it so that *all* full stops are followed by two spaces, > but I can't work out how to do it. I can't simply search for "full stop + > space" and replace with "full stop + two spaces" because the sentences that > are already separated by two spaces will end up with three. > > Is there a wild character which represents "a character but not a space"? > > The only other way I've thought of is to replace both "full stop + space" > and "full stop + two spaces" with just "full stop", and then replace "full > stop" with "full stop + two spaces". This strikes me as clumsy and > inelegant, but I suppose it should work. But surely there's a better way? > > Many thanks. > > Bert > > > > > > > >

Re: Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated "Bert Coules" <mail[ at ]bertcoules.co.uk> 10/22/2008 11:13:34 PM TedMi wrote: [Quoted Text] > ^w will match any number of consecutive spaces and/or tabs. That's very useful, thanks. Bert

Re: Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 10/23/2008 6:58:36 AM You could also use a wildcard search for ([.:\?\!])([ ]){1,} replace with \1\2\2 which should do the lot at once. However you would have to handle the behaviour where quotes are involved separately. See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Bert Coules wrote: [Quoted Text] > TedMi wrote: > >> ^w will match any number of consecutive spaces and/or tabs. > > That's very useful, thanks. > > Bert

Re: Another Find-and-Replace question. Help appreciated "Bert Coules" <mail[ at ]bertcoules.co.uk> 10/23/2008 8:08:35 AM Graham, Thanks for that, and for the link. In this particular instance I've now achieved what I needed by inelegant (but successful) means, but it's bound to crop up again. Bert