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I have been copying legal transcripts from their pdf form to word. When I do I get weird spacing, for instance:



w a s a -- we w e r e at a s o c c e r g a m e , a n d so we w e r e w a t c h i n g t h e

soccer game.



MR. Small: Dr. Page, this is my specific q u e s t i o n : Did you or did you not discuss.



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When I view the formatting, I see dots between the letters that are spaced far apart. Can someone tell me how to get rid of them. I have pasted into Notepad, tried special pasting, tried pasting the text into gmail editor, and nothing will get rid of the wide spaces. Thanks for any assistance that can be given.
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Whatever process produced the PDFs or was used to copy their content may be responsible for the extra spaces. Unfortunately, there is no easy fix for this if it really is as you describe. That's because there's no obvious way to determine which spaces should be retained and which should be deleted.
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Hi Macropod,


Thanks for your response. I would at least like to try to use my creativity in using find/replace. How do I put the little dots in between the letters into find/replace. When I go to special characters in Find/Replace, I don't see the dots between the letters. If I could find these, maybe I can figure out something to do.
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The 'little dots in between the letters' are most likely just Word's representation of spaces between the letters. You can confirm that by clicking on the ¶ symbol on the Ribbon's Home tab. If the dots disappear, spaces they are.
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