Hello,

I have a really frustrating issue that I can't seem to resolve with wildcard search and replace in Word 2013 for Windows.

I have a document that I'm editing, in which the author(s) have inconsistently used 1 space and 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence. To make things consistent, I want to set everything to 2 spaces after every period at the end of a sentence. I found this wild card formula that should accomplish what I need:

Find: ([.\?\!]{1} )([A-Z]{1})

Replace with: \1 \2



But EVERY time I use this formula to replace one found instance, I get the following:

Original: ...normal aging. In humans... (notice, 1 space after the period)
Replaced: ...normal aging. I n humans... (it's putting the two spaces between the first and second letter of the sentence! why?!)

I cannot for the life of me figure out what's going on. Logically, it all looks good to me. Any help would be much appreciated.

Cross posted at: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office...cdb3fee0cb19

Thank you.

This question is duplicated at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...8-cdb3fee0cb19

Please do not post to multiple forums without a cross reference, it results in unnecessary duplication of effort by people who support these forums with their time.

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Sorry about that. I added a cross reference in my original post.

You need to turn off 'Track Changes' before doing the F/R.

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