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1. Microsoft word find and replace whitespace update#
2. Microsoft word find and replace whitespace driver#

Select the Use wildcards check box (this method won’t work unless this option is turned on).These three tasks are explained in this tutorial: Customize Word’s Proofing Options to Find Extra Spaces. Or, you can find extra spaces in Word by customizing your proofing options and then deleting them individually as you type or during a Spelling & Grammar check. Click the More button to display the search options. You can use Microsoft Word’s Find and Replace tool to delete extra spaces all at once.Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.There are several methods you can use to do this (see the list at the end of this post for alternative methods I’ve documented), but the best - and quickest - method is to use a wildcard search to find any number of consecutive spaces and replace them with one space.

Your job is to clean up the document - including finding all those extra spaces and removing them. Instead of changing tabs to spaces one by one, the Word’s Find and Replace function is commonly used to convert tabs to spaces. The authors might have used multiple spaces to force layout (instead of tabs, styles, tables etc.), or they may have pasted words from another source into the document thus adding an extra space or two where there should only be one space. If you’re editing a document written by one or more authors who don’t have a lot of Word experience/knowledge, there’s a good chance you’ll come across instances of multiple spaces where there should only be one space.

Microsoft word find and replace whitespace driver#

Thats because the beginning of any other line is affected by the layout parameters returned by the attached printers driver - and that varies from one printer make/model to the next. See this blog post for details: īig thanks go to the late Mike Starr for sharing this tip! Using Find/Replace, there is no way of finding the beginning of a line, unless that line is also the beginning of a paragraph or follows a manual line break.

Microsoft word find and replace whitespace update#

Update March 2019: Although the method below works, there’s a quicker method that uses ^w instead of wildcards.