Reply To: How to find sentences that end in periods with no space after them

Just a quick update on the first GREP statement. It worked like a charm, but it also picked up all the URL addresses listed in the book (written as http://www.AuthorName.com, etc.). I ran it as a “Find Next” rather than automatic, so I was able to skip those instances where the fix wasn’t needed. Even still, I ran through 321 fixes in about 15 minutes. For which I am very, very grateful as I am completely confident that all of these errors have been fixed. Whew!

The second GREP query picked up 154 errors. Again, I ran it manually to ensure that it ran properly, and this took less than 10 minutes. I have saved both of these in my GREP queries for future use.

As for the last one, it picks up all instances, including the last word of every single paragraph (because there is naturally no space after the last period of a paragraph ;o). So, this one is not going to be much of a time saver. Is there a way to exclude hard returns in the GREP query? Because if there is, then that will focus the query on just the problem spots.

I really appreciate your help with this.

Thanks!