How to remove spaces between characters in MS WORD 07?

Question

I currently have a large document taken out of a .PDF that looks like something like this:

h e l l o t h e r e.

Does anyone know how to remove those spaces between the characters automatically without having to manually do it for each sentence?

The same things happen when you copy paste from an excel document.

Any info would be a great help. Thank you!

Answer 1

Assuming there is one space between each letter and two spaces between each word, do the following:



We must preserve all the double spaces because we want to convert them to single spaces later.



STEP 1:

Go to replace.

Check the option "use wildcards".

In "find what" write a single space followed by {2}

In "replace with" enter a random combination of letters that does not appear elsewhere in your document, for example abcdefgh.

Press replace all.



STEP 2:

Enter in "find what" a single space character.

Make sure the "replace with" field is empty and press replace all.



STEP 3:

Enter in "find what" the word you entered in the first step (for example abcdefgh).

In the "replace with field" enter a single space.

Then press replace all and you are done.

Answer 2

In Spaces Between

Answer 3

Sure thing,



In word open the Find and Replace tool. (Ctrl + H)



In the find field put a ^w (that signifies whitespace)

Leave the replace field blank then click find all or find if you want to go line by line.



HTH - Good Luck,

-Aaron



EDIT: Are there two spaces between the words?

The problem is telling MS word to delete spaces, but not the spaces between words.



What I would do is make a macro that actually runs three different search and replace.



Again this all depends on there being 2 spaces between each word, yet one space between each letter.



Ctrl + H (find and replace)

Search for " " (that's a space space)

Replace with "+++" (anything arbitrary will work here)



then



Search for " " (one space)

Replace with (that's a blank)



then



Search for "+++" (the arbitrary replacement)

Replace with " " (one space)



You should be left with the spacing correct between words and the spaces gone from between the letters.

Answer 4

Ruthie Baby is Correct! Courier New is a monospace font meaning all of the characters occupy the same widith. Letter spacing is font-specific, rather than software dependent. Even if you edit Font > Spacing, it will still be variably spaced because the letters themselves are different widths. However, the more spread-out the letters are, the less noticeable variation in actual character width will appear to the eye. If there is a particular effect or result your are attempting to achieve -- there may be other ways to do it, than a monospace font.

Answer 5

Highlight the word with spaces

right click on it

select Font

then advanced tab

in the character spacing select condensed or normal

then hit okay

Answer 6

This works in MS Word 2010, tested.



My situation was like this. I had double spaces between words and one space between some characters of many many words. It was an irregular case of one-space issue in some words. e.g.



w o r ds

irr r e gu lar i t y



How I dealt with it:



1. Control h for find and replace window.

2. entered [space] (by pushing space bar just once, of course) in find what line.

3. entered "qwert" (or any other string of characters that is very much unlikely to be existing within my document) in replace with line.

4. Replaced all

5. Then I had " qwertqwert" for double spaces between words (please note the single space at the beginning of qwertqwert) and " qwert" for single space between characters within words (note the single space again).

6. Control H again. Entered "qwertqwert" in find what line (no space in the beginning) and entered nothing (no space, just nothing) in replace with line.

7. Replaced all and ended up with single spaces between words.

8. Control H again. Entered "qwert" (no space) in find what line and entered nothing in replace with.

9. Replaced all.

10. Voila. No space between characters/letters and just single space between words.



Hope this works for you too. :)

Answer 7

If each letter is separated by an extra space, so there are two spaces between words, but one between letters then just use replace, and enter two spaces in the find, and one in the replace with.

Answer 8

how to remove space between letter to rename folder? example

Nur Raihan Anuar



to make a new folder

Nurraihananuar



but i dont want to make for each folder. i wanna make in bulk. so save time.

Answer 9

For MS word assistance, simply click F1 on your keyboard and a dialog box will appear.

Answer 10

try changing the font or copying to notepad first then copy & paste into wsword