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Old 06-23-2015, 02:25 PM
mysterytramp mysterytramp is offline Two spaces after a period Windows 7 64bit Two spaces after a period Office 2010 64bit
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Originally Posted by macropod View Post
What is the point of having two spaces anyway? That is nothing more than a holdover from the days of typewriters with fixed-width characters and double spaces were used to emphasize breaks between sentences.
The client wants two spaces, and they pay. That's the point.

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Furthermore, a Find/Replace cannot differentiate between periods used for abbreviations (e.g. Mr. Smith) and those that delineate sentences.
True, but I wouldn't mind doing each one manually if replace works. It would save a lot of keystrokes. As it is, I can search for period, one space, capital letter, but I need three/four keystrokes to place the cursor correctly before manually adding the space.
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