Re: Find function in Word does not work when searching double spac

Copy an example of the double spaces and paste it into the Find prompt.

I suspect that at some stage you have obtained that text from a browser. A
browser expresses double spaces as two different characters: a non-breaking
space followed by a space.

If you search for {space}{space} you will not find {nbspace}{space}. If you
search for {nbspace}{space} you will.

It's difficult to tell the difference by eye, but if you click your
Show/Hide button and perhaps increase the Zoom magnification a little, you
will see that the two characters are differently rendered on screen.

Cheers

On 13/2/07 6:52 AM, in article
0AD853E5-658B-407E-AEA6-0BD8D66DFE3F@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Artrinsic"
<Artrinsic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

February 12, 2007

Thanks morgancreative,

I am using "Find" at times, and "Find" / "Replace" at other times, and it
still does not work. I will try again. Could it be that the software may not
have been properly or fully installed?

Thanks,

Artrinsic

"morgancreative" wrote:

Are you using find or replace. I just did a test word 2003 on xp and it works
fine.

"Artrinsic" wrote:

In Windows XP, when I try to find double spaces using the "Find" function so
that I can replace them with a single space, it does not work. The "Find"
function also does not work when performing searches for words. This
function
worked well in Windows 2000. Does anyone have a solution to this? - Thanks!!

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