To find two spaces, in the “Find what” field, type: 2 spaces. In the “Replace with” field, type: 1 space.īecause the spaces don’t appear as text, the Find and Replace dialog box will seem to be empty…but it isn’t. To find the first occurence of two spaces, click. The cursor will move to the first set of two spaces. To replace these with a single space, click. Of course, you could always choose to Replace All the double spaces.įinding and Replacing a Varying Number of Spaces The cursor will automatically move to the next occurence of two spaces. Open the Find and Replace dialog box by clicking and choosing “Advanced Find…” Now, what about that coworker who tends to separate ideas or lists with several spaces instead of a tab or hard return? How can we find a group of spaces that varies in number? This is just slightly trickier than finding 2 spaces. Move to the Replace tab at the top of the dialog box.
To find a varying number of spaces, we will use the. What do we want to use to replace the multiple spaces? If we’d like to insert a tab, we type: ^t. Let’s replace the spaces with a hard return. To do this, in the “Replace with” field, type: ^p.īefore this will work, we need to make sure that the “Use wildcards” option is activated. Without this, we won’t get the results we want. To activate the “Use wildcards” option, click the checkbox. To find the first occurence of two or more spaces, click.
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