Re: Searching for exact number of spaces by Tony
Tony
Wed Jan 09 14:43:45 PST 2008
WIth "Use wildcards" specified, look for "[! ] [! ]" - without the
quotes, that's left (square) bracket, shriek, space, right (square) bracket,
space, space, space, space, space, space, left (square) bracket, shriek,
space, right (square) bracket - the sequence left (square) bracket, shriek,
space, right (square) bracket means 'not space'.
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Enjoy,
Tony
"cc" <cc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to search for an exact number of "regular" spaces. I want
> Word to search for 6 spaces. These spaces were caused by blank form
> fields
> that were unlinked. The problem that I'm having is that my document also
> contains 15 and 30 hard spaces that are used to create a spot for
> handwriting. The find and replace is removing the hard spaces that I want
> to
> keep.
>
> Thanks.
>
> j