Replacing existing text with new text is simple. Figure A Use a wildcard to find multiple spaces.
#MICROSOFT WORD FIND AND REPLACE WILDCARDS CODE#
One of the biggest mistakes novice Word users make is to enter multiple spaces instead of using a tab to position text on the page - and those spaces can wreck a document! Fortunately, you can replace them with a tab mark by using the code tells Word to find two or more literal characters the space character you entered is the literal character. You can refine the search by prefacing both the find and replace strings with a period (or other punctuation mark). These settings will find all occurrences of two spaces, not just those at the end of a sentence.