Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-07 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Bill Briggs wrote: At 12:19 PM -0600 8/3/07, Combs, Richard wrote: What am I missing? Nothing? Why do people not want those spaces? For me, it's just a habit I learned in other programs in which a trailing space actually does occupy some space. It never occurred to me (and I actually

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-07 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Bill Briggs wrote: > At 12:19 PM -0600 8/3/07, Combs, Richard wrote: >> What am I missing? > > Nothing? > >> Why do people not want those spaces? For me, it's just a habit I learned in other programs in which a trailing space actually does occupy some space. It never occurred to me (and I

RE: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-06 Thread Harro de Jong
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a plethora of these and the closest I have got is to:

RE: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:19 PM -0600 8/3/07, Combs, Richard wrote: What am I missing? Nothing? Why do people not want those spaces? I, like you, leave a trailing space. In fact, if I have an anchor - table or frame - hanging on the end of a para, I generally put an em space on either side of it so it's out

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-06 Thread Harro de Jong
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove > trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either > imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I > have a plethora of these and the closest I have got is to:

Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-05 Thread Leah Smaller
Nowadays, bytes are pretty cheap, and your thumbs can use the exercise. Bytes are cheap, thumbs are not and actually, your thumbs do not need the exercise. Each extra space is an extra push with your thumb. Unfortunately most of us use less than efficient movement when we are keyboarding away

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-05 Thread Leah Smaller
>Nowadays, bytes are pretty cheap, and your thumbs can use the exercise. Bytes are cheap, thumbs are not and actually, your thumbs do not need the exercise. Each extra space is an extra push with your thumb. Unfortunately most of us use less than efficient movement when we are keyboarding away

Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: but this results in the new \p taking on the paragraph attributes of the next line, removing extra vertical space or changing to superscript if next line starts on a superscript. I've had great success getting around this exact same problem in Indesign (haven't

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a plethora of these and the closest I have got is to: Find: Text: . \p Replace: Text: .\p

RE: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Combs, Richard
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a plethora of these and the closest I have got is

Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sorry, Kenneth, I get the same results. Even if I add a \P to the change, I then get a new line and both pilchrows take the character formatting of the first character in the following line. Regrettably I cannot check this in FM 8 as it won't allow me to open it (in trial). I hope they have

Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 8/3/07, Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > but this results in the new \p taking on the paragraph attributes of > the next line, removing extra vertical space or changing to > superscript if next line starts on a superscript. I've had great success getting around this exact same problem in Indesign (haven't

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Combs, Richard
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to > remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents > that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by > FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a plethora of these and > the closest I have got

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sorry, Kenneth, I get the same results. Even if I add a \P to the change, I then get a new line and both pilchrows take the character formatting of the first character in the following line. Regrettably I cannot check this in FM 8 as it won't allow me to open it (in trial). I hope they have

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 8/3/07, Combs, Richard wrote: > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > > I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to > > remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents > > that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by > > FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:19 PM -0600 8/3/07, Combs, Richard wrote: >What am I missing? Nothing? >Why do people not want those spaces? I, like you, leave a trailing space. In fact, if I have an anchor - table or frame - hanging on the end of a para, I generally put an em space on either side of it so it's out