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Subject:Re: remove spaces from Word From:sphilip <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:21:32 +0700
Thanks Fred,
I appreciate all the advice and tips from others, but Fred's solution is precisely what I was after.
On 21 Mar 2013, at 22:59, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> In fact, Word supports a subset of regular expressions in it's Find function, so you *can* do this in one step. In the Find and Replace (Advanced Find) dialog, first select the "Use wildcards" option. Then, in the "Find what" box, type a single space followed by {2,9}, and in the "Replace with" box type a single space. Click Replace All, and you're all done.
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> -Fred Ridder
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