Finding periods followed by one space

[Zel Dolinsky]

I have a very large Word 2000 document and I want to check if there are any
sentences that end in a period and only have 1 space instead of 2 spaces
after the period and the word of the next sentence. If there is only 1
space I would like to replace it with 2 spaces. Can this be done with "find
and replace"? If not is there any automated way of doing this? Thanks

 

[Lynn A.]

Using the Find and replace should do it.

Select Edit, Replace from the menu

in the find what text box type in: ".[space]"

in the replace with text box type in ".[space][space]"

Some might have had two spaces already, so go through it again and
find ".[space][space][space]"
and replace it with ".[space][space]"

You could record this as a macro for future use.

Lynn