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[Harry Bacheler]

There is a setting in Word 2000 that lets you define the number of spaces 
after a period, 0, 1, or 2.

Tools > Options > Spelling and Grammar > Settings > Require > Spaces 
Required Between Sentences >

The selection box is 'normally' displaying 'don't check'.
Click on the arrow.
Make your selection.
Click on OK
Click OK.

There, the spacing is set to the number of spaces 1 or 2, or don't check.

One of these is the English way, the other is the American way.  I don't 
rember which.  I have mine set to 20 for readabilit is i got to an 8-point 
font.

Harry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cloy Tobola" <cloy.tobola at ndsu.edu>
To: "Shannon Wade" <SWade at daktronics.com>
Cc: <techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: (no subject)


> Shannon Wade asked:
>> ...snip...
> > Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't have blank paragraphs
> > or shed ANY light on the other issue?
>> ...snip...
>
> Shannon,
>
> You would avoid extra paragraphs for the same reason you avoid 
> wordiness -- it's extra, meaningless content that clutters your document.
>
> If you needed to force a page break, you would not do it by inserting 
> unnecessary words to make a paragraph longer. Same thing with line breaks. 
> Use formatting tools to format your document, not superfluous content.
>
> The other reason not to use extra line breaks is that they mess up the 
> format if the document settings (e.g., margins, headers, footers, gutters) 
> change. This can happen if you move to a different computer or change 
> printers.
>
> Once you've had to reformat a document where someone has done this, you'll 
> see what a colossal pain in the keister it can be. Other "foolish 
> formatting" I've seen include...
>
>  -manually inserting periods to create a "dot leader" (like you'd use in a 
> table of contents)
>  -using spaces to align or center text
>  -using tabs to create columns
>  -people still putting two spaces between sentences
>
> Excelsior!  -Cloy
>
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