Word 2007: spacing between *sentences* doesn't update

[Guest]

I work with long manuscripts and am currently converting from Word 2002 to
Word 2007. Style & grammar settings in 2007 specify 1 space between
*sentences* which I want. The documents being converted currently have 2
spaces between each sentence. Unfortunately, it remains 2 spaces (although
marked as error). How do I get the program to automatically update--remove
the extra space? Going through a 400 page manuscript, sentence x sentence and
deleting the extra space seems antiquated. What am I not doing? Thanks.

 

[Greg Maxey]

If you are talking about "empty" paragraphs between lines of text then see:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Word will not do this automatically. However, if you don't have any
legitimate places in the document where two spaces are needed rather than
one, you can change them all in one fell swoop using Find/Replace:

Press Ctrl+H.

Find what:<space><space> (I.e., tap the space bar twice)

Replace with:<space>

Replace all.

If you do have valid occurrences of two spaces, then a different approach
would be needed -- one that specifically targets sentence punctuation
followed by two spaces:

Ctrl+H

Find what[.\!\?])(<space><space>) (type everything exactly as you see
it here, EXCEPT press the Space bar where <space> is indicated.

Replace with:\1<space>

Use wildcard: checked

Replace all.