Hi, Johanna,

Same issue for me here, except I'm not on the newest version but 2010 for Windows. The boss wants double spaces, but most of the newer engineers are haphazard at best about using them.

The best I've been able to do so far is:

1. Find ". " and replace with ". " (replace full stop-single space with full stop-double space): Replace All.

2. Then Find ". " and Replace with ". " (replace full stop-three spaces, for any that were done correctly, with full stop-two spaces): Replace All.

3. Then either eyeball for any double spaces after the stop for, say, the middle initial of someone's name, the stop after Mr, Ms, Inc, etc, or if you were going to write a macro you could add those exceptions and restore them from ". " to ". ".

More often than not, I run the Find/Replace manually, using Find Next to visually look and see if the replace is needed, but this gets tedious in a 20-30 page document.

In my version, under File/Options/Proofing/When correcting spelling and grammar in Word... there is a setting under Grammar to check on spaces required between sentences. You can default it to 1 or 2.

--Ann

Thanks Ann, I'll try that!




That's really helpful - I think I did used to know that, but forgot. So thanks for reminding me.