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Monday, November 26, 2007

Remove spaces - Microsoft Word

I'm sure it's happened to you just as it has to me. You copy and paste some text in from the web or an email message and it comes in with leading spaces - on evey line. There are lots of ways to remove the problem starting with hitting the delete key way too many times. Stop already!

There is, however one very smart way to do it without getting a repetitive strain injury. Select the lines of text and press Control + E to center the text. With the text still selected press Control + L to left align it and voila! the spaces are gone.

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3 Comments:

At July 1, 2008 7:58 AM , Blogger Linda said...

You're brilliant! Works perfectly, and couldn't be more simple. Thank you!

 
At September 25, 2008 6:34 PM , Blogger girishg said...

great tip, you are better than a IT geek, if I ask IT geek for a solution he may let me write a program to do it.

 
At December 15, 2008 5:49 PM , Blogger Keira Ramsay said...

OMG -- you just saved my life!! Seriously. I was working on a manuscript that had a leading space in front of every paragraph (all 165 pages of it). I'm letting all of my editors and proofers know about this posthaste!

Thanks so much!

Terri Schaefer
Editorial Director
Liquid Silver Books

 

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