How do i automatically space two times after a punctuation mark? us1711 10/19/2008 10:44:08 AM Hello all, I frequently type reports that need to have two spaces after a period and colon. How do I automatically set up my Microsoft Word 2007 to accomplish this? Thanks,

Re: How do i automatically space two times after a punctuation mark? "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 10/19/2008 11:24:10 AM Pressing the space bar twice is as automatic is you are going to get. The alternative is to use replace later. You can setup the grammar checker to highlight required spacing, but it will not fix them automatically. Frankly double spacing is a practice hangover from when people used monospaced fonts on a typewriter. A Word processor is not a typewriter and will normally use proportionally spaced fonts thus the double spacing is largely irrelevant. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> us1711 wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello all, > > I frequently type reports that need to have two spaces after a period > and colon. How do I automatically set up my Microsoft Word 2007 to > accomplish this? Thanks,

Re: How do i automatically space two times after a punctuation mark? Sesquipedalian Sam <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> 10/20/2008 3:06:20 PM On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:44:08 -0700, us1711 <us1711[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hello all, > >I frequently type reports that need to have two spaces after a period and >colon. How do I automatically set up my Microsoft Word 2007 to accomplish >this? Thanks, I think two spaces after a full stop is strongly discouraged with proportional-space fonts. Use of a monospace font for other than specific situations is also strongly discouraged. ;-)