Hello,

I’m currently familiarising myself with MS Word’s Find and Replace as I have three fairly long reports I’m proofreading. I’m up-to-speed with F&R basics, but I’m struggling to come up with Wildcard character strings for the following:

• Delete multiple spaces within words

• Delete multiple spaces before punctuation
(I’ve got a workable string for ‘after punctuation’ but not for ‘before’)

• Delete blank lines between paragraphs

If anyone ‘out there’ can assist, I would be very grateful.

Thanks in anticipation,

David