How to remove spaces between words in Word

When composing a Word document, sometimes you will accidentally leave extra spaces that you don't know, like spaces between words, spaces in Word tables, and spaces down in Word. These spaces will more or less affect the layout of the entire page as well as the aesthetics of the document.

For documents that are short in about 1 page and have little content, users can search for white space manually, but with documents with many pages, this method takes a lot of time. Instead of having to do this manually, there is a very simple way for you to quickly find spaces. The following article will guide you how to remove spaces between words in Word.

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Instructions to remove spaces between text in Word

Step 1:

We have a Word document with spaces between the following words.

You press the Home button and select Replace in Editing , or you can use CTRL + H to quickly open.

In the Find and Replace dialog box, we click the Replace tab and then click More below. Check Use wildcard , look above the Find what section you enter () {2,} and Replace with enter 1 . Finally click Replace All as shown below.

Step 2:

Now Word will display the number of spaces that Word has found to replace, click Yes to proceed to delete the entire space.

The result of the whole space has been deleted as below.

Marvin Fry

Update 13 February 2020