How can I change word spacing in an entire document at once

[rfdrj]

here is what my word docs do....

They may be looking at the same thing, but they each h ave very
different interests.
Jenny is
studying it closely. She is telling herself that her interest is
academic, but that might n ot be the
whole story

here is what it should look like: thirty five years old with sandy hair that
just might be starting to thin at the back and a waist that is just a bit
thicker than he would like


I want to fix the entire doc at once

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

It looks like you're saying you want to replace one text with an
entirely different text ...

Is the first paragraph downloaded from a website?

Is there a paragraph mark at the end of every line?

(What, you don't have Show Non-Printing Characters turned on Ctrl-
Shift-8 ? or at least Show Paragraph Marks, which you turn on in the
Options area?)

If so, do a Find/Replace (Ctrl-H) with ^p (caret-p) in Find What? and
nothing at all -- or type the spacebar once -- in the Replace With
box. Click Replace All.

 

[macropod]

Hi rfdrj,

Assuming there are varying numbers of space characters between the words, you could use Find/Replace, with:
Find: ([ ])[ ]{1,}
Replace: \1
and check the 'use wildcards' option.