Removing spaces between words in MS Word

[BrendanC]

I download a lot of docs that require reformatting to remove a lot of spaces
between words; then this is cut & paste via word into our database.

Is there an automated way to remove spaces between words? I have found a
macro to remove leading white space but not spaces between words (to leave
only one space between each word).

Note: the spaces b/w each word may vary. Here is an example of the text
before and after 'conversion' that is required:

'This has too many variable spaces
between words'

Desired result:

'This has too many variable spaces between words'

Thanks!
Brendan

 

[Character]

I download a lot of docs that require reformatting to remove a lot of spaces
between words; then this is cut & paste via word into our database.

Is there an automated way to remove spaces between words? I have found a
macro to remove leading white space but not spaces between words (to leave
only one space between each word).

Note: the spaces b/w each word may vary. Here is an example of the text
before and after 'conversion' that is required:

'This has too many variable spaces
between words'

Desired result:

'This has too many variable spaces between words'

Thanks!
Brendan

Use Find/Replace - Find ^w and replace with a single space. This will
eliminate all instances of multiple spaces (two or more) with single
spaces.

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[BrendanC]

Thanks.. seems to help.. but I needed to run the find/replace several times,
as each time it only removed several spaces...
Am I doing soemthing wrong?

confirming: ^w is CONTROL W.. select this in find/replace

I'm running Word 2003.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

No, that's how the find and replace method works. You repeat as
many times as needed until 'find' finds nothing to replace.

 

[BrendanC]

Thanks!

Brendan

No, that's how the find and replace method works. You repeat as
many times as needed until 'find' finds nothing to replace.

 

[Character]

Thanks.. seems to help.. but I needed to run the find/replace several times,
as each time it only removed several spaces...
Am I doing soemthing wrong?

confirming: ^w is CONTROL W.. select this in find/replace

No, it's the character sequence ^ (shift-6) followed by w

Select 'replace all'

and they should all go away at once.

I just tried it, also in Word 2003, and that's what it did for me.
It's possible that your documents have some attribute(s) that my test
document didn't.

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