If necessary, repeat for four and five spaces too. Repeat the ‘double to single’ search above but check for three spaces. What if someone has gone crazy adding three or more spaces after sentences? There are two ways to handle this. To use either as a regular character prefix with a \ eg \? Or \!Ĭhange sentence space for triple spaces or more ? and ! have special meaning in wildcards/regular expressions. Replace with Exclamation Mark followed by one space – !Ĭheck the ‘Use Wildcards’ box for more complex searches which cover the three sentence enders.Search for Exclamation Mark followed by two spaces – !^w^w.Replace with Question Mark followed by one space – ?.Search for Question Mark followed by two spaces – ?^w^w.The easy way to fix these is repeating the search twice more, exchanging the period/fullstop for the other punctuation. Often overlooked are other sentence enders question mark ? and exclamation ! possibly others in different languages. Either type ^w or go to More | Special and choose White Space. ^w is a special search term to find any ‘white space’ character. ^w^w fullstop/period followed by two spaces – Change single space after sentence to double space in Word Change Sentence space Double to Single That’s not practical for a whole document, instead turn to the Replace command.Ĭhanging single spacing after sentences to double space is a little more tricky, but still possible.
Right-click on a dotted line to see the correction and fix the sentence spacing, one at a time. The Sentence Spacing settings (single, double or don’t care) is in Word’s Grammar settings see Sentence Spacing in Word. Word can check if you use a single or double space after a sentence (fullstop/period) but how can it be changed throughout a document? Make all sentences end with a single space instead of double spaces, triple or more.
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