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    • July 28, 2018 at 8:36 am #105111
      Andy Mcgroarty
      Member

      HI there

      I would like to delete all the instances of double spaces in my ID document. I have been trying to use ‘Find/Change’ but every time i type a double space in ‘find what’ and then a single space in ‘change to’ i get the message “cannot find match”. I tried copying the text into word and it found 38 instances so i know they are there.

      I’m sure this use to work before, so this is really frustrating. I am on CS6 and have just upgraded to OS Sierra.

      Any help or suggestions would be most welcome.

      Thank you.

    • July 28, 2018 at 8:40 am #105112
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Make sure your find dialogue is empty of everything except for those two spaces. Make sure no styles or formatting is in effect.

      Also uncheck whole words if that’s checked.

    • July 28, 2018 at 10:20 am #105113
      Andy Mcgroarty
      Member

      Thank you Dwayne. I hope all is well with you sir!

      Yeah, i have been doing all you have suggested, still no luck.

      • July 28, 2018 at 11:07 am #105114
        Dwayne Harris
        Member

        Hey Andy–things are well with me. I hope the same for you.

        That is weird about what you’re going through, though I have had that happen to me in the past with newer versions of Indesign. Sometimes Indesign gets a brain fart.

        This may sound odd–but search for a single space and replace with two spaces. Then search for two spaces and replace with one. You have have to do that second search/replace a second time.

        That may force InDesign to wake up.

    • July 28, 2018 at 11:08 am #105115
      Dieter Stockert
      Member

      There is a built-in “Abfrage” (I’m using a german version of InDesign) in the Find-Change dialog to change all multiple spaces to one space. Does this work?

    • July 28, 2018 at 11:12 am #105116
      Andy Mcgroarty
      Member

      “Multiple space to single space” Amazing Dieter! That did it! Thank you so much!!!

      • July 28, 2018 at 12:33 pm #105117
        Dwayne Harris
        Member

        Dieter was right :)

        I forgot all about the built-in search/replace that InDesign has. Well, I didn’t forget, but forgot what it was called.

        Glad you got the help you needed, Andy.

        Have a good weekend.

      • July 28, 2018 at 1:46 pm #105119
        Andy Mcgroarty
        Member

        And you Dwayne! Best wishes!

      • July 28, 2018 at 1:49 pm #105121
        Dwayne Harris
        Member

        Thanks, my friend.

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