Can't find space before closing quotation marks

Stefan Blom · #1 01-15-2014, 12:48 PM

Perhaps the space is nonbreaking. You should be able to find it if you enter Ctrl+Shift+SpaceBar in the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog box.

wardw · #2 01-15-2014, 04:49 PM

Thanks, Stephan. I have Ctrl+Shift+SpaceBar allocated to a different application so I couldn't use that easily, but from the Special dropdown list I selected Nonbreaking Space (^s) but found none in the document.

Stefan Blom · #3 01-15-2014, 05:06 PM

If you click the ¶ button on the Home tab, to force the display of nonprinting marks, then what do you see in place of the mysterious space?

wardw · #4 01-16-2014, 09:41 AM

My computer rebooted last night (Microsoft did some automatic updates), and the problem went away; I was able to find space open quote just fine.

Stephan, I didn't get a chance to try Show/Hide marks, but after the reboot the spaces showed up as normal spaces. I suspect they would have yesterday as well, and that the problem was resolved by the reboot.

Stefan Blom · #5 01-16-2014, 12:13 PM

Note that if Word was running when Windows restarted automatically following automatic updates, this could have caused problems. Take a look at http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm.

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