how to find spaces in pages

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how to find spaces in pages

I'm proof-reading a document that someone sent me, and the person has random 2 spaces between words throughout the document. in my old word program, i could just do a search for 2 spaces and find where they were and correct it to 1 space. but now in pages, when i do a search for 2 blank spaces, it says none can be found (but i know for a fact they are all throughout the document). any idea how i can find where these spaces are throughout the doc by doing a search?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 29, 2009 4:43 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 29, 2009 4:53 AM in response to G Prato

Are you sure they are normal spaces? Some spaces are different from other spaces. Highlight two of them in the doc and copy them to the search box, and try searching like that.

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Answer 2

Jul 29, 2009 5:49 AM in response to G Prato

any idea how i can find where these spaces are throughout the doc by doing a search?

Place the insertion point, press and hold Shift, then press left arrow or right arrow once and once only to select one and only one non-imageable space character.

Open the Apple Character Palette and at the bottom left press the Action button. In the drop-down list select Show Character Selected in Application.

The Apple Character Palette will scan the Universal Character Set ISO-IEC 10646 for the non-imageable space character and provide the long identifier plus the short identifier.

Having identified the non-imageable spacing character, insert said non-imageable spacing character in the search and replace dialogue of Apple Pages and do a global search and replace.

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