How to remove extra space(s) in the beginning of a sentence? Thread poster: Chunyi Chen
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Chunyi Chen
United States
Local time: 11:37
English to Chinese
Hi! Does anyone know if there is a macro or an ahk script that will remove the extra space(s) at the start of each Chinese sentence in a Word file? I don't remember experiencing such a problem in MemoQ 5, but since I migrated to MemoQ 6, I found it doing a great job maintaining the formatting of the source text (no sarcasm intended). Unfortunately this does not work with my language pair. In character-based Chinese, you don't put a space between sentences. Trados does a good job in removing... See more Hi! Does anyone know if there is a macro or an ahk script that will remove the extra space(s) at the start of each Chinese sentence in a Word file? I don't remember experiencing such a problem in MemoQ 5, but since I migrated to MemoQ 6, I found it doing a great job maintaining the formatting of the source text (no sarcasm intended). Unfortunately this does not work with my language pair. In character-based Chinese, you don't put a space between sentences. Trados does a good job in removing these extra spaces when it cleans up a document. Now that I don't use Trados to process my files anymore, is there a quick and easy way to remove these unnecessary spaces in Word? Any suggestions are very appreciated.
As additional info, these extra spaces are seen after a Chinese period or after a colon. They are "between" segments in MemoQ, so there is no way for me to identify and fix them in MemoQ.
Thank you.
Chun-yi ▲ Collapse
| | | | David Wright 
Austria
Local time: 20:37
German to English
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| search and replace | Aug 30, 2012 |
Can you not simply replace ". " by "."?
| | | | Ann Kapborg
Sweden
Local time: 20:37
Member (2012)
English to Swedish
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| Search and replace with special characters | Aug 30, 2012 |
Hi!
If the extra space is after a paragraph:
Search for: ^p (paragraph char) and space.
Replace with: ^p.
You will also have the opportunity to choose them in the Search and Replace form.
I there is a period and spaces you want to replace, you can search and replace that too.
When searching and replacing like this, always do it on a copy and make sure the criteria are unique.
Greetings,
... See more Hi!
If the extra space is after a paragraph:
Search for: ^p (paragraph char) and space.
Replace with: ^p.
You will also have the opportunity to choose them in the Search and Replace form.
I there is a period and spaces you want to replace, you can search and replace that too.
When searching and replacing like this, always do it on a copy and make sure the criteria are unique.
Greetings,
Ann
[Edited at 2012-08-30 16:05 GMT]
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| | | | Chunyi Chen
United States
Local time: 11:37
English to Chinese
TOPIC STARTER | Both suggestions didn't seem to work | Aug 30, 2012 |
Hi David and Wrenda,
Thank you for your suggestions. I tried them on my file and they didn't seem to work. What I am trying to achieve is:
Changing XXXXXX。 ＹＹＹＹＹ： ＺＺＺ
to
XXXXXX。ＹＹＹＹＹ：ＺＺＺ
Thank you for your help.
Chun-yi
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| If it was English... | Aug 31, 2012 |
In Word, I would go to Edit/Find and Replace, check „Wildcards” checkbox and
Find:
[_]{2,}
Replace with:
_
(here ’ _’ means a space, not underscore) to replace any sequence of more than one spaces with only one.
Perhaps your Word version syntax needs a semicolon after 2, not a comma.
| | | | Chunyi Chen
United States
Local time: 11:37
English to Chinese
TOPIC STARTER | a simple solution | Aug 31, 2012 |
Marton from Kilgray tried a simple way that uses find and replace in Word and it worked!
Find (type one space here)
Replace (leave blank)
I didn't know it could be so simple.
Thank you all for your help.
Chun-yi
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