HT replace period-followed-by-leter with period-space-space-letter? (Word 2010)

I have a huge document that got pasted out of another source. Many of the sentences have no spaces between the period at the end of one sentence, and the first letter of the first word in the next sentence. Is there a way to use search & replace to locate them and insert two spaces between the sentences?

Thanks for any help-

Microsoft Word

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Saqib Husain

3/16/2012

Why don't you simply use a search/replace with

"."
replaced by
". "

Saqib Husain

3/16/2012

Later you might like to replace

". "
replaced by
". "

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3/16/2012

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Thanks for the replies. ssaqibh, I can't do "." with ". " because there are a number of places that already have 1 or 2 spaces.

GrahamSkan, I can't get word to find a match using the regexp. I copied one of them into the search/replace dialog, but no matches found. I tried the other one in the navigation/search, and created a doc with dots, spaces and letters (also shown in the snap). Is there a trick to entering regexp's into those dialogs?

Thanks for any help-

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