How do I search for a condtion that does NOT exist in a document?

[Matthew C.]

My document, converted from .PDF, has many places with no space after the
period (.)at the end of a sentence. I want to find&replace the document for
periods that do NOT have a space after them.

Before I go the long way and search for ".a", ".b", ".c", etc. I'd like to
know if there is an easier way.

 

[macropod]

Hi Matthew,

You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, with:
Find = (.)([A-Z])
Replace = \1 \2

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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You can do a wildcard search for .[!sp] and replace that with .sp, where
sp
= space.

I can't seem to get this to work. Where is ! documented for use in
search and replacement?