Spaces at Beginning of Data Ro

P

Pam

I have a document that has 30 pages. Each row of data
has 5 spaces at the beginning. How can I remove only the
5 spaces at the beginning of each row and not any of the
data after that?

Thank you
 
G

Greg

Pam,

What do you mean by row? Is your document a table? Is each line as
single line paragraph? You may (should) be able to do a simple find
and replace operation. Edit>Replace. Type five spaces in the find
field and leave the replace with field blank. Click replace all.
 
P

Pam

I'm sorry, I should have gone with my first instinct and
been more specific. It's not in table form. The data row
has 5 spaces and then more spaces and more data and more
spaces and more data. Therefore, I couldn't couldn't
just do a find and replace as you mentioned. I only need
to remove the 5 spaces at the beginning of each row.
It's not a paragragh - It's a row of unique data and then
the next row is unique data and so on.

-----Original Message-----
Pam,

What do you mean by row? Is your document a table? Is
each line as single line paragraph? You may (should) be
able to do a simple find and replace operation.
Edit>Replace. Type five spaces in the find
field and leave the replace with field blank. Click
replace all.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Ctrl+A to select all the text. Ctrl+E to center it. Then Ctrl+L to
left-align it again. If this doesn't work (though it should), and if there
are no runover lines, you can use column-select (press Alt while clicking
and dragging) to select the column of spaces, then delete them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.
 
P

Pam

Thank you very much - It worked!
-----Original Message-----
Select the text, change the text alignment to Center, and then back to
Left again and Word should trim the leading spaces.

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P

Pam

Thank you very much - It worked!
-----Original Message-----
Ctrl+A to select all the text. Ctrl+E to center it. Then Ctrl+L to
left-align it again. If this doesn't work (though it should), and if there
are no runover lines, you can use column-select (press Alt while clicking
and dragging) to select the column of spaces, then delete them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.



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G

Guest

Word's ability to jettison the spaces when you center the text is a neat
trick. I have always done it manually, but by holding the Alt key down while
using the mouse to select the left-most portion of the text.

This centering trick is faster & easier for left padded spaces. I think the
Alt-left click & drag approach is still the only way to select a column of
text within the body of other text - in an ASCII report for instance.
 
P

Pam

I never heard of the word "jettison"
-----Original Message-----
Word's ability to jettison the spaces when you center the text is a neat
trick. I have always done it manually, but by holding the Alt key down while
using the mouse to select the left-most portion of the text.

This centering trick is faster & easier for left padded spaces. I think the
Alt-left click & drag approach is still the only way to select a column of
text within the body of other text - in an ASCII report for instance.


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