SPACING BETWEEN WORDS

[dopey2012]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Hi i wish to have double space between the words (not characters or lines) after i have typed my document. For example 'I Live In London'. I am using a mac and have word for 2004. Thank you.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Why? This is a very non-standard requirement.

One approach--use Find and Replace. You can type an invisible space into
the Find box and two spaces into the Replace box. Test this on a copy
and close all other documents first, though--it might go haywire and
trap itself in a loop.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Would you be better off re-defining the style for text of this nature so
that the characters are expanded (i.e., horizontally)? In the process of
making the text spread out, the spaces would spread too.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[John McGhie]

I agree with Daiya:

I suggest that you do a Find/Replace also. I would, however, suggest that
you use an "em space" as a replacement, rather than two "spaces".

In proportional type, a "space' as a variable width that will be altered as
needed to justify the margins. Many applications (particularly, Web
applications) will delete more than one space in a row.

An "em space" is a fixed width that is twice the width of a non-breaking
space, which will give you the effect you require, and no other application
will fiddle with it.

Cheers

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Hi i wish to have double space between the words (not characters or lines)
after i have typed my document. For example 'I Live In London'. I am using a
mac and have word for 2004. Thank you.

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[dopey2012]

Thanks guys the find and replace theory worked!!!