automatically delete text spaces in affinity publisher

[Guest]

How to automatically delete text spaces in affinity publisher?

[walt.farrell]

Sorry, but I don't understand. Which spaces do you want to delete? The ones between Proporcion and marca?

How were they created?

[Guest]

yes, but automatically.

[A_B_C]

Well, you could use a Find and Replace operation. Just search for /space/space/ and replace with /space/. Repeat until all double spaces are gone. Wouldn’t that work? 😀

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Andrés Rivera Gómez said:

yes, but automatically.

You can't get them removed automatically. But, how did the spaces get created?

If you typed them, Autocorrect should be able to remove them as you type, I think. If you pasted them in, you'll probably have to use Find and Replace.

1 hour ago, A_B_C said:

Just search for /space/space/ and replace with /space/. Repeat until all double spaces are gone. Wouldn’t that work? 

It's a repetitive process that way, and when you get to the end of the document you need to go back to the start and do it again. Possibly several times.

But if you click the cog/gear in the Find section to set the Formatting options, you can check the option to use regular expressions. Then, you can set the Find expression to:

\s{2,}

and it will find any kind of repetitive whitespace (spaces, em-spaces, en-spaces, tabs, etc). Then just put a single space in the Replace field. Click the Find button, then Replace or Replace All.

[A_B_C]

That’s even better, of course. 😀

(To be honest, I often do it just the lazy way, searching directly for double spaces, not relying on regular expressions. But it involves repetitions, of course. You’ll have to search until there are no more occurrences.)