Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a single space

Posted: 02-14-2006, 08:11 AM

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Aim: To reduce double spaces after a comma and quote [,"] to a single
space. In a long written document woord 2004 for mac.

Problems: 1. Find and replace not identifying comma and quote
specifically. Also finding instances of full stop and quote.

Need: To know what to type; e.g [(,")] (A-Z)]

Problem 2. Find and replace moaning and complaining when I ask it to
reduce two spaces to one with: "\1 \2" [quotes not typed] not a valid
field range is the error message from memory

Need: What to type in the replace box exactly.

Thank you.

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Clive Huggan

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Re: Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a singlespace

Posted: 02-14-2006, 11:44 AM

Dear [whoever],

Edit menu > Replace > type (in "Find What") the text in the square brackets
shown here => [, "] (that is, comma space space quote)

Type in "Replace With" the same as above, but with only the one space.

Hit Replace or Replace All as appropriate.

I'm not sure what "moaning and complaining" means, so I'll bow out with
that.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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On 14/2/06 7:11 PM, in article
1139904718.524898.309250@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups. com,
"<mackNOS...@internode.on.netINVALID>" <letters@internode.on.net> wrote:

> Aim: To reduce double spaces after a comma and quote [,"] to a single
> space. In a long written document woord 2004 for mac.
>
> Problems: 1. Find and replace not identifying comma and quote
> specifically. Also finding instances of full stop and quote.
>
> Need: To know what to type; e.g [(,")] (A-Z)]
>
> Problem 2. Find and replace moaning and complaining when I ask it to
> reduce two spaces to one with: "\1 \2" [quotes not typed] not a valid
> field range is the error message from memory
>
> Need: What to type in the replace box exactly.
>
> Thank you.
>

CyberTaz

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Re: Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a singlespace

Posted: 02-15-2006, 02:51 AM

It appears you are trying to carry over syntax from some other environment
if what you are typing into the Find & Replace dialog is as displayed in
your post.

In the Find What: box type ,"<sp><sp> (<sp> = 1 press of the spacebar)
In the Replace With: box type ,"<sp>

The message that you get in Problem 2 is because Word does not recognize the
\1 \2 operators you are using. For this one;

In the Find What: box type <sp><sp>
In the Replace With: box type <sp>

HTH |:>)

On 2/14/06 3:11 AM, in article
1139904718.524898.309250@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups. com,
"<mackNOS...@internode.on.netINVALID>" <letters@internode.on.net> wrote:

> Aim: To reduce double spaces after a comma and quote [,"] to a single
> space. In a long written document woord 2004 for mac.
>
> Problems: 1. Find and replace not identifying comma and quote
> specifically. Also finding instances of full stop and quote.
>
> Need: To know what to type; e.g [(,")] (A-Z)]
>
> Problem 2. Find and replace moaning and complaining when I ask it to
> reduce two spaces to one with: "\1 \2" [quotes not typed] not a valid
> field range is the error message from memory
>
> Need: What to type in the replace box exactly.
>
> Thank you.
>

Elliott Roper

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Re: Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a single space

Posted: 02-15-2006, 11:48 AM

In article <C018017C.DBD8%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net>, CyberTaz
<onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net> wrote:

> It appears you are trying to carry over syntax from some other environment
> if what you are typing into the Find & Replace dialog is as displayed in
> your post.

Are you sure? It looks like the wildcard replace syntax described in
the Word help. Not all of which works as advertised.

>
> In the Find What: box type ,"<sp><sp> (<sp> = 1 press of the spacebar)
> In the Replace With: box type ,"<sp>
>
> The message that you get in Problem 2 is because Word does not recognize the
> \1 \2 operators you are using. For this one;
>
> In the Find What: box type <sp><sp>
> In the Replace With: box type <sp>
>
> HTH |:>)
>
>
> On 2/14/06 3:11 AM, in article
> 1139904718.524898.309250@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups. com,
> "<mackNOS...@internode.on.netINVALID>" <letters@internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> > Aim: To reduce double spaces after a comma and quote [,"] to a single
> > space. In a long written document woord 2004 for mac.
> >
> > Problems: 1. Find and replace not identifying comma and quote
> > specifically. Also finding instances of full stop and quote.
> >
> > Need: To know what to type; e.g [(,")] (A-Z)]
> >
> > Problem 2. Find and replace moaning and complaining when I ask it to
> > reduce two spaces to one with: "\1 \2" [quotes not typed] not a valid
> > field range is the error message from memory
> >
> > Need: What to type in the replace box exactly.
> >
> > Thank you.

I spent ages on this once. Bit pushed for time now. Ask again if you
are still stuck. Some of the match expressions don't work in
combination.
google this group for wildcard search replace and my name - this url is
that search:-
<http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...ace&num=10&sco
ring=r&hl=en&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=micro soft.public.mac.office.
word&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=elliott+Roper&lr=lan g_en&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=
&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=15&as_ma xm=2&as_maxy=2006&safe
=off>

to see if any of the help I got with a similar problem answers your
query.

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CyberTaz

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Re: Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a single space

Posted: 02-15-2006, 11:02 PM

Elliott Roper wrote:

> Are you sure? It looks like the wildcard replace syntax described in
> the Word help. Not all of which works as advertised.

Tested before posting & had no problem with the ," finding/replacing
some half-dozen occurences. As for the 2-space to 1-space, I didn't
specifically test it _at that time_, but have used it successfully in
various versions of Word on both Mac & PC.

Regards |:>)

Clive Huggan

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Re: Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a singlespace

Posted: 02-15-2006, 11:55 PM

On 16/2/06 10:02 AM, in article
1140041399.165500.174010@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups. com, "CyberTaz"
<generaltaz1@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Elliott Roper wrote:
>
>> Are you sure? It looks like the wildcard replace syntax described in
>> the Word help. Not all of which works as advertised.
>
>
> Tested before posting & had no problem with the ," finding/replacing
> some half-dozen occurences. As for the 2-space to 1-space, I didn't
> specifically test it _at that time_, but have used it successfully in
> various versions of Word on both Mac & PC.
>
> Regards |:>)
>

Sorry, I mis-read the position of the spaces in the question. My earlier
post should have read:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edit menu > Replace > type (in "Find What") the text in the square brackets
shown here => [," ] (that is, comma quote space space)

Type in "Replace With" the same as above, but with only the one space.

Hit Replace or Replace All as appropriate.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Like the original solution I nominated, I tested this variant before posting
and it works.

Clive Huggan
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CyberTaz

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Re: Reduce double space after a comma and quote [,"] to a singlespace

Posted: 02-16-2006, 01:04 AM

Addendum to previous post: Just tested the 2-space to 1-space solution & it
worked like a charm as in the past.

Regards |:>)

On 2/15/06 6:02 PM, in article
1140041399.165500.174010@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups. com, "CyberTaz"
<generaltaz1@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Elliott Roper wrote:
>
>> Are you sure? It looks like the wildcard replace syntax described in
>> the Word help. Not all of which works as advertised.
>
>
> Tested before posting & had no problem with the ," finding/replacing
> some half-dozen occurences. As for the 2-space to 1-space, I didn't
> specifically test it _at that time_, but have used it successfully in
> various versions of Word on both Mac & PC.
>
> Regards |:>)
>

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