How To Erase Sign Word

How To Erase Sign Word

this document was converted from a dot lit file format to Microsoft Word and it came across with a bunch of spacing that we don't want we're going to use advanced find and replace to get rid of that spacing so that it behaves normally now don't be distracted by the fact that the words are gibberish that is only the case because I replace certain or letters in this document with other letters to protect the original per the author's copyright so to get rid of the whitespace that I don't want I first of all need to find out what's causing it and on the home ribbon in word I'll turn show/hide on clicking the paragraph mark symbol this shows me all the non-printing characters and now I can kind of get a feel for what's going on here I'm going to drop my zoom down so we can see a little bit more of this at once it looks like right in the middle of paragraphs at the end of every line rather than Texas wrapping we have hard return hard return space the little black dots are regular spaces then between what would actually be paragraphs we have two our returns a regular space a non-breaking space that's what this degree symbol is another couple more hard returns in another space really what we just want there is one simple hard return also I'll notice as I look through the document that here and there we have these non-breaking spaces where we don't want them as I scroll I see specifically that they seem to be at the end of every sentence period non-breaking space period non-breaking space so the first thing we want to do is get rid of the string of text between the paragraphs and replace it with something else now we can't just replace it with a regular hard return because when we later go to get rid of the double hard return space we could end up wiping out some of our hard returns depending on how many of them fall in what order so I'm going to replace it with a string of characters that I would not typically have in a document so how do I do that well I can press ctrl H on my keyboard or click place on the home ribbon brings up my find replaced dialog box here I have a more button where I can drop down to see a lot more options and one of them is special so I need to identify the pattern and it appears to be enter enter space non-breaking space inter inter space so how do I put that in here well once I know these special characters I could just type them in but originally I'm just going to pick them so I can see what they are so paragraph mark is my hard return to my enters I've got two of those in a row followed...