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Subject:Re: Word Question From:Ginna Watts <gwatts -at- PIM -dot- BC -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:10:37 -0800
At 10:35 AM 2/18/97 -0800, you wrote:
> It seems that when I'm editing paragraphs,
>Word will change double spaces into single spaces when it gets the chance
>(eg. when it adjust word-wrapping, or when I delete words beside a double
>space). Since I habitually double space after periods, this causes
>consistency problems in my document.
In 'Options', 'Edit', try taking off 'Smart Cut and Paste'. I couldn't
think of anything else.
Ginna
Ginna Watts - Technical Writer
Pacific International Mapping Corp.
gwatts -at- pim -dot- bc -dot- ca
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