Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've written a very clunky macro for reducing all sequences of spaces > 1
> to a single space. It is a find/replace loop finds a sequence of 2 spaces
> and reduces it to 1 and then loops back to the beginning and repeats 10x.
> I do this 10 times since I don't know the maximum number of spaces that
> I'll need to deal with. This works fine for short documents but looping
> repeatedly through a 430 page document seems extreme. Sure there's some
> really cool code out there that will just take an arbitrary number of
> spaces greater than 1 and reduce them to a single space.
> 
> All suggestions are welcome.
> TIA
> Jonathan
What I'm looking for is a routine like the one on pp.163-164 of Andrew's
Macro Information, but much, much simpler. All I care about are spaces and
all sequences of 2 or more should be reduced to a single space, without
excpetion.
Cheers,
Jonathan

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