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thank you! Aikmark, that makes sense....
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I have an 8000 word document. I'm wondering if there's some &quot;smart&quot;, elegant tool or trick - or whatever - that will survey the entire document and remove the extra spaces between words, but not mess with the tabs.<br />
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I think one way is to select a section and use find and replace... replace _ _ &nbsp;with _. But it seems, given all the amazing software available, that there might be something better.<br />
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This is a legal brief, by the way.
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I have an 8000 word document. I'm wondering if there's some "smart", elegant tool or trick - or whatever - that will survey the entire document and remove the extra spaces between words, but not mess with the tabs.

I think one way is to select a section and use find and replace... replace _ _  with _. But it seems, given all the amazing software available, that there might be something better.

This is a legal brief, by the way.

MS WORD - How do I remove spaces?

Office Productivity refers both to the act of being productive and efficient in an office or professional environment, as well as the software applications used to "produce" information. This includes the development of professional skills, creating work processes, and almost any program used to create or modify a document, image, audio or video clip. However, business application suites such as Microsoft Office, which include word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs, are typically called productivity software, as contrasted with a "utility program," such as a file manager, which is used to organize files and folders on the computer. Many office- and business-oriented groups of programs are organized into suites.

Office Productivity

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.