adding a space between all selected text in Microsoft word

Question

adding a space between all selected text in Microsoft word

example

I was not athome onmonday

Question:

I select an Italic Word eg home then I click on choose similar words the all Italic words are selected, I then highlight them

how to create a space between all selected Italic words automatically, so that I won't have any spelling errors

please help me

I have a lots of document with this problem, I don't have time to correct each word

Answer 1

If this is the only way that italics are used in the document, then the following search can insert the space for you:

Find what:   leave blank and press Ctrl+I so that Font:Italic appears under the search box.

Replace with: [space]^&   ([space] means for you to press the space bar; so press space, then type caret (^) ampersand (&).

What this does is find every occurrence of italics, inserts a space, and then follows the space with whatever matched the italic search (^& = whatever the find search finds).

If you use italics in other ways, then you will need to check each match to ensure that it's what you're looking for. Otherwise, Replace All will do it.

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Herb Tyson Microsoft Word MVP

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Answer 2

See the article "Cleaning up text pasted from the Web” at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

 -- Hope this helps.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP,

dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

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can you please help me with documents that are formatted like this

The painting of miniatures was a tradition in our family. My father

had said that it was a talent which was passed down through the

generations and to become a great painter one must begin in one's

cradle. So it had been with the Collisons. They had been painting

miniatures since the seventeenth century. Our ancestor had been a

pupil of Isaac Oliver, who in his turn had been a pupil of none other

than the famous Elizabethan miniaturist Nicolas Hilliard.

Until this generation there had always been a son to follow his father

and carry on not only the tradition but the name. My father had failed

in this; and all he had been able to produce was a daughter- myself.

*I have lots of documents like this, I would like it to become like this*The painting of miniatures was a tradition in our family. My father had said that it was a talent which was passed down through the generations and to become a great painter one must begin in one's cradle. So it had been with the Collisons. They had been painting miniatures since the seventeenth century. Our ancestor had been a pupil of Isaac Oliver, who in his turn had been a pupil of none other than the famous Elizabethan miniaturist Nicolas Hilliard.

Until this generation there had always been a son to follow his father and carry on not only the tradition but the name. My father had failed in this; and all he had been able to produce was a daughter- myself.

I have so much document like this if I though of formatting it manually it would take forever.

I did try fixing the document I ended with a document that did not have any paragraphs . the whole document became like this

The painting of miniatures was a tradition in our family. My father had said that it was a talent which was passed down through the generations and to become a great painter one must begin in one's cradle. So it had been with the Collisons. They had been painting miniatures since the seventeenth century. Our ancestor had been a pupil of Isaac Oliver, who in his turn had been a pupil of none other than the famous Elizabethan miniaturist Nicolas Hilliard.Until this generation there had always been a son to follow his father and carry on not only the tradition but the name. My father had failed in this; and all he had been able to produce was a daughter- myself.

Please help me

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

Answer 3

can you please help me with documents that are formatted like this

The painting of miniatures was a tradition in our family. My father

had said that it was a talent which was passed down through the

generations and to become a great painter one must begin in one's

cradle. So it had been with the Collisons. They had been painting

miniatures since the seventeenth century. Our ancestor had been a

pupil of Isaac Oliver, who in his turn had been a pupil of none other

than the famous Elizabethan miniaturist Nicolas Hilliard.

Until this generation there had always been a son to follow his father

and carry on not only the tradition but the name. My father had failed

in this; and all he had been able to produce was a daughter- myself.

I have lots of documents like this, I would like it to become like this

The painting of miniatures was a tradition in our family. My father had said that it was a talent which was passed down through the generations and to become a great painter one must begin in one's cradle. So it had been with the Collisons. They had been painting miniatures since the seventeenth century. Our ancestor had been a pupil of Isaac Oliver, who in his turn had been a pupil of none other than the famous Elizabethan miniaturist Nicolas Hilliard.

Until this generation there had always been a son to follow his father and carry on not only the tradition but the name. My father had failed in this; and all he had been able to produce was a daughter- myself.

I have so much document like this if I though of formatting it manually it would take forever.

I did try fixing the document I ended with a document that did not have any paragraphs . the whole document became like this

The painting of miniatures was a tradition in our family. My father had said that it was a talent which was passed down through the generations and to become a great painter one must begin in one's cradle. So it had been with the Collisons. They had been painting miniatures since the seventeenth century. Our ancestor had been a pupil of Isaac Oliver, who in his turn had been a pupil of none other than the famous Elizabethan miniaturist Nicolas Hilliard.Until this generation there had always been a son to follow his father and carry on not only the tradition but the name. My father had failed in this; and all he had been able to produce was a daughter- myself.

Please help me

Answer 4

thanks a million it worked.