I use one space, but I can understand how you must be feeling. I feel for you.

When I changed from piddly little tesktop publisher to a real computer, I had to reformat my whole book... space by space, word by word, line by line.

Talk about eye crossing. It was worse than being carsick. All those words and pages scrolling past my face made me giddy.

Until then, I had never used a pc before, but I tell you what, I learned an amazing amount in a very short time. And I learned that Ctrl z was my favorite saftey net.

Here, have a cup of coffee and slice of blueberry pie.

Thanks for the pie and coffee.

The funny thing is, my writing books said to add the extra space. But then I realized that they were written in the 70’s. Time for new books I guess. lol

poor poor David,

Thanks Janice...

I feel like a bag dog.

It's ruff, ruff, ruff.

"Stop barking, they will hear you!" says the disembodied voice.

David, I cry ARRRG! See? The two spaces. I can't stop it. It is ingrained in my thumb. How do you stop when you type 60 words a minute but taking out the extra space drops your pace to 40? OR 30? Blogger, tho, takes out the extra space automatically... is that cool or what?

Gina,

So you never got the memo either? Argh is right. Well said.

My writing suffers big time, because I spend more time taking out the spaces than I do writing.

I need chocolate.

No chocolate. Keep working. Keep deleting those spaces. Crack the whip.
Muahahahahaha :)

Crack the whip? Man...

Some people smell blood and they pile on.

Man...

Craig,

Those extra spaces are part of a fiendish plot to rob us of our collective will.

Soon gay’s married to terrorists will round us all up and force us to run “amock” in solar powered cars.

Personally, I think Microsoft is behind it all.

Hey David, will sneek you some chocolate in , when Rulan not looking , ota :)

Be sure to hide it in coffee grounds. Rulan can smell chocolate a mile away.

Thanks I will do that! :)

BTW, what form do you get your chocolate fix in?

jel - Cool... & shhhh... she has long pointy ears that hear everything.



Stranger - I like mine dark and silky, like a woman's heart.

It took me a while to learn to type with only the one space. Still, I don't worry to much about it. To make sure I've caught all the doubles, I use the find-and-replace feature on Word. Type two spaces in the "find" box, one in "replace", and the computer does the work for you.

Katie, this proves it.

You are WAY smarter than me.

I need chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate.

Are you KIDDING me? My boss reconditioned me to use 2 spaces between sentences a few years ago, insisting that was a standard.

I don't know WHAT to do now!

(I've seen you around several blogs I visit - just wanted to come over and say hi. HI! But now I'm all fretful about my double space-barring. Thanks a lot! ;D)

p.s. Your avatar is the GREATEST!

Clew, - Thanks for stopping by.

Yeah, that extra space thing is a tough one. You got to keep the boss happy.

Oh bother. I refuse. Point blank. Well, maybe if an editor tells me to do it! The word 'sucks' is very appropriate for this fact. I'm in denial right now.

Mimi, good news!

Katie Hart suggested going into “replace” and have it automatically replace all dbl spaces for single. I tried it and it works! The only bad news was that it messed with my headers and footers. But that was easily fixed.

I still need chocolate.

What!!! Last year I was told I needed to go through an entire novel I had written and insert an extra space! Because this person is younger, hip and aware of what's what, I thought...uh..duh...I better do it.
I'm about to finish another novel!!! Arrrgghh what to do!!!

Michel...

I know what you mean. I even remember reading the rule in one of my writing books... But they were all written 25 years ago. So what’s a girl to do?

Katie H. says that you can add or remove a space with the find and replace feature. It seemed to work for me.

I hope that helps.