What is the purpose of such a requirement?

How would you use this information and how should it be presented to you if you didn't want it provided by a macro?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thanks for your responses.
The purpose of my question is to spot some characters wich stands at the begining
of lines. This lines come from a justified Word document and I want to correct them if
? : . " etc appears in first position.
I'll use any given macro but I did'nt find one.

If you are saying that punctuation marks may be preceded with a space, which would be required if they appear at the beginning of a text line, you could of course search for <space>? etc.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

In a properly punctuated document, that won't happen. Such formatting indicates the presence of a space before the punctuation mark and, quite possibly, is associated with the lack of a space after it. This can all be cleaned up through Find/Replace; it really has nothing to do with line starts/ends.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]