How to remove a non-breaking space in Word. How to remove extra spaces in Word

In this article we will devote ourselves to analyzing the gaps in Word editor. Many have probably encountered this phenomenon when we align text in width and suddenly too large spaces appear between words. After opening a document, we can also unexpectedly observe large spaces between words. How to remove them will be discussed today.

The first thing that automatically comes to mind is to place the cursor at the end of the word before the space and press the “delete” key. In this case, it is assumed that the deleted word will pull itself up and stand as it should. However, this was not the case. The word is pulled up, but is placed close to the previous one, and if they are separated by the “space” key, then it again goes to its previous position. How to properly remove this big gap and will be discussed in the article.

How to remove width spaces between words in Word?

The first option is quite easy, but labor-intensive if there are a lot of spaces. For removing large spaces Use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR.

The first step is to hold down left key mouse to select the entire large space - from word to word.

After that, press the above combination and the large space will automatically become a standard one character. If the problem with large intervals is due to the fact that the lines were broken, in this case we do this. Open the “File” menu, the “Options” tab, and there we find “Advanced”. In the window that opens, check the box next to the line “Do not expand character spacing in a line with a break.”

Also, spaces can appear due to tab characters. You can find out by clicking the “Display Symbols” button on the toolbar.

After clicking this button, we will see the corresponding symbols on the page. They will appear as arrows pointing to the right.

In order to remove them, simply select these arrows with the mouse and press the SPACEBAR key.

Removing extra spaces in Word 2007 throughout the text

The options discussed above are good when there are few such large spaces in the text and you can gradually remove them all manually. But the text can be quite large, and there can be a lot of spaces. It will be very difficult to remove them this way. Or rather just as good, but very long and tedious.

You can perform an automatic operation for all large spaces at once using the AutoCorrect function. The replacement window is called up using the CTRL+H key combination, or by clicking the “Replace” button located on the right side of the editor toolbar.

As a result of one of these operations, a window will open in front of us in which we need to go to the “Replace” tab, and then click the “More” button.

In the newly opened window, find the line “Wildcards” and put a checkmark next to it. There is no need to change anything else. If there is only one space in the text, do the following.

Go to the “Find” line, place the cursor, press the “Space” key and write in this line (2;). This command means that if there are two or more spaces in the text, they will be removed. Next, go to the “Replace with” line, place the cursor and simply press the space bar. There is no need to write anything here.

After that, click the “Replace All” button. The program will perform the replacement, removing all unnecessary spaces. That's basically it. Good luck in mastering the Word editor. And finally we look short video to remove spaces.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated or tedious with extra spaces. You can easily remove them.

To do Word document clear and fully compliant, you need to know how to delete a blank sheet in Word or how to remove extra spaces in the text.

Reasons for appearance

There are several reasons why extra pages appear in a document:

• extra paragraphs;
• inserted forced break pages;
• section break inserted;
• added a table at the end of the document.

Removal

To understand what causes blank sheet in Word, turn on non-printing characters.

Important! In different versions of Word The sequence of actions and location of settings are different. But the algorithm of actions remains the same.

Home tab → Paragraph block → click the Show all characters button.

Extra paragraphs

Select extra paragraphs → click Delete button on keyboard.

Watch the video to see how this process happens.

Force page break

Place the cursor before the page break symbol → press Delete.

The video shows the process clearly.

Section break

If the character appears at the end of the document, place the cursor before the section break character → press Delete.

Important! The section break may not appear. In this case, go to: View tab → Document Viewing Mode block → Draft.

If the section break is set in the middle of the document, the text formatting will be disrupted when deleted. So if you need to keep the same formatting after this point, don't delete anything. Otherwise, the formatting of the text located after the section break will extend to the rest of the document.

To leave two different types formatting and remove the blank sheet, set the section break type to “On the current page”:

Table

The reason for the appearance of a blank sheet at the end of the document may be a table. By default, Word places a blank paragraph after the table, which, if the table reaches the end of the document, is moved to the next page.

You can type 2 or 3 characters, run Compose Special Characters command Alt+Shift+Z and convert these characters into one special character. The extension also allows you to add custom symbols.

How to select a vertical block of text in a document?

Starting from version OOo 2.4, use the menu Edit - Selection Mode - Block Area

Is it possible to work with document versions?

Yes. You can enable it like this: Edit -> Changes -> Record

How to make large letters that are white inside and have black edges?

Format - Characters - Font Effects - Outline Or faster - Context menu-Style-Outline

How to disable automatic numbering of lists?

Tools-AutoCorrect-Options uncheck Apply numbering - symbol *

How to disable automatic replacement with a capital letter after a period?

menu Service - AutoCorrect...tab Exceptions- enter a list of abbreviations after which they should not be replaced by capital letter. tab Options- disable autocorrect.

How to split a window horizontally while simultaneously accessing two parts of a large text document?

In OOO, it is possible to simultaneously access an unlimited number of document locations, unlike MS Writer. To do this you need to run the command Window - New Window, a new window will appear with the same document. Changes made in one window will be reflected in the second. The number of such windows is not limited. This method is especially good for widescreen monitors, when windows can be arranged from left to right, which is much more convenient. For regular monitors You can arrange windows one window above another and thereby obtain a complete analogue of Word's division of document windows.

The horizontal scroll bar always takes up part of the screen, and is always present, even when the page is smaller than the screen. Is it possible to remove it?

You can turn it off completely using Tools - Options - Writer - View - Horizontal stripe scroll

Is it possible to remove the tooltip (page number, section name) when scrolling a document with the mouse wheel?

Yes. Disabled here Service - Options - General and uncheck Tooltips. If you need an extended hint, you can enable Detailed tooltips.

Instead of spaces there are gray rectangles.

Non-breaking spaces are displayed in gray. They are used, for example, to separate the initials from the surname, so that when a line breaks, the initials are carried along with the surname. In order to disable the display of non-breaking spaces, you need to go to the section Tools - Options - Writer LLC - Formatting Characters - Display Uncheck “Non-breaking spaces”.

Is it possible to shade text in the header and footer area?

Special function does not exist. Alternatively you can use:

• contrasting background color for headers and footers, must be removed before printing ( Format - Page - Header and Footer - Advanced);
• enable display of text borders (menu View - text borders)

How is the page break sign displayed?

Thin line at the top of the page when the option is enabled View - Text Borders. The color of the line can be changed - see picture

Red triangles in tables, figure titles, and boxes. What does this mean?

A red triangle indicates that the contents of the table or frame do not fit into the this place, so some of the text is outside the display boundaries. In order to see the text in full, it is necessary to either expand the boundaries of the table (inset), or reduce the font size, or move part of the text to another place.

By the way, the same triangle is present in Calc cells if the cell width is less than the text length.

How to remove a hyperlink and convert it to plain text? Select a hyperlink and right-click. From the context menu, select " - Signs Hyperlink

", and remove the URL line.

In a text document, when you try to edit a table created in Excel, Calc opens, but does not allow you to edit (it says that this document is open for reading only)

See All options must be enabled

I can't open a plain text file in OpenOffice.org. How to do it? Since version 2.3, OOo offers a set of filters if it cannot automatically recognize the file type. But you can also always specify OOo explicitly the type of file you want to open. To do this, open new document , select File - Open File name, then into the field File type select Text or Coded text. If .org asks for the required encoding, provide it.

How can I change the wrapping settings for all images in a document at once?

The image style needs to be adjusted. Turn on Stylist- tab Frame styles, find the style Image, right mouse button Change..., tab Flow around- set the required parameters - OK

How to rotate an image 90 degrees?

>Copy and paste the image into OpenOffice.org Draw and rotate there. Then paste the original one back into OO Writer

How can I prevent a graphic object from being visible when printed?

Uncheck the Service - Options - Writer LLC - Printing - Content

How to cut out part of a picture inserted into text from a file

Right-click in the picture to call context menu. Further Image- tab Cropping

Draw and display on all pages. How?

To make it the background graphic object, created through the drawing panel of Writer itself, repeating on all pages, you need to insert this object in the footer. To do this, you first need to add the header and footer itself, then place the cursor in it (so that the binding is to the header and footer), and then insert the object(s).

Another way:

Draw this picture using Draw, export to raster image and then paste into the background of the OOo Writer page style you are using

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Now let's delete empty lines in Word. I turned on the display of control characters (non-printing characters) for clarity. These are the same squiggles in Word, which so frighten some citizens.

Look, after the words “for them” the “key” was pressed Enter". Her code is 13 (carriage return code). Please note that it is pressed twice in a row.

This is what I got after replacing the entire page:

In the place where there was a double “Enter” a single one appeared. The result is clean, compact text that is easy to format.

Let me also remind you that when formatting, you may need to reduce the line spacing to a minimum. Removal line spacing in Word it is done at once. Just reset the formatting. This applies to other editors as well, such as Open Office and Libre Office. Everything is elementary simple. IN in this case It is enough to remove the formatting (word 97-2003) or set the formatting (word 2007-2013) to “formatting without spacing” in the selected block. Optionally, you can include a superscript or subscript.

Don't forget about the great find-and-replace pair. This makes it convenient to remove visible characters and pre-cook large text to automatic formatting, for example, into a table.

Gray spaces appear when copying text from the Internet. Here's what it looks like in the Open Office editor:

It's simple. Select the gray space. Call up the search and replace dialog again using Сtrl+F. In the “Replace with” line, enter a simple space and click “Replace All”. Thus, the team removed any squiggles and gimmicks that were in the text. By using such replacements, you can remove unnecessary character sets and prepare the text for conversion, for example, into a table.

Some for global cleaning document from formatting, select all the text, paste it into Notepad, and then copy it back into Word from there. The method, as they say, is not for everyone, but it works flawlessly. However, in this case ALL formatting is lost.

I hope that I have helped numerous users who often have to remove blank lines, spaces and other characters from text.

For your reference, I provide below some of the control character codes. Yes, the code ^13 will insert a line break. Code ^32 In Word it will insert a space.

Today we will talk about how to remove unwanted characters from text in LibreOffice Writer.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have to deal with documents in which the text is formatted simply badly. For example, like this:

There are hyphens and gaps of varying degrees of severity - continuous and double-triple.

In general, a special hello to those who align text with spaces. Guys, this is a shame! By doing this, you show your complete computer illiteracy, create a lot of problems for yourself (you just need to slightly change the page parameters or add a few words to the text, and all your “formatting” goes to hell!) and other people (being a perfectionist, I, for example, get strong moral suffering from such disgusting).

In general, if the text is small, you can correct it manually, but what if not? To save time and effort for more interesting activities, we will slightly automate the process of bringing the text into a digestible form.
For our case we need:
— remove extra spaces;
— replace non-breaking spaces with regular ones;
— remove dashes that pretend to be hyphens;
— remove the carriage return in each line (thus the authors of our text created a column as best they could).

First of all, LibreOffice Writer provides a special tool for this, called AutoCorrect. To apply it to text, execute the command Format->AutoCorrect->Apply. This must be done even if you have autocorrect enabled as you type - we didn’t type the text ourselves, but inserted it from the buffer. In this case, there is no need to go into the settings, since they are optimal, and you still won’t be able to do more with this command - it is “tailored” for slightly different tasks. The result looks like this:

We said goodbye to the obviously unnecessary carriage return characters. Now let's use another simple command - Find and Replace. A window of the same name will open if you select the corresponding item in the Edit menu:

To remove hyphens, enter a dash in the Find line, and leave the Replace with line empty (we always do this when we need to remove any characters altogether, and not replace them with others). And click the Replace All button.
Accordingly, to replace duplicate spaces, type in top line two spaces (they won’t be visible, but they are there), one space at the bottom. We perform the replacement and repeat the operation for non-breaking spaces. To insert one into the search bar, you need to copy it from anywhere in the document (or any other problematic character. For example, some of the gray areas turned out to be hyphens from Word).
We get, although not ideal, text that is more acceptable for editing:

And I guess we'll end here this article. If you have any similar problems with text that cannot be solved using the methods described above, write in the comments or on our forum. We will try to help you.