On this web page I’m focusing on removal of unwanted formatting and characters. A pity the author did not rework it for use as a editable document: in its current form the document is likely to create an unfavourable impression im the mind of any recipient.
I guess the NDA was originally intended for printing out and manual completion by the recipient. We can see the tabs in the original when the non-printing characters are displayed:Īlso exposed are the empty paragraphs, ¶, used to introduce white space between lines of text. The deterioration of the layout is the result of poor construction, part of which is due to the use of repeated underscore characters and to inconsistent tab settings. This is what happens when I fill in this section: Here’s the final section of an NDA, as a typical example:
The majority of these attachments are Word documents, in which, when I try to input, the formatting breaks down and I have to spend time tidying things up. I receive as attachments to emails contracts, NDAs and other documents that require I fill them in and email them back.
Particularly those knocked up without much thought and care, or without full understanding of the proper use of Word. Unfortunately, it’s too often necessary to spend time making wholesale edits to a document before applying correct techniques to improve its appearance and serviceability.
That’s particulary the case when strings of spaces, for example, have been used by the author instead of properly applying suitable formatting. Re-formatting to improve layout of a document by adjusting “white space” can be a chore. How to remove and replace characters in a document, including those originally intended for setting layout and formatting. Congratulations, fellow one-spacers.(e) Removing Unwanted Characters and Space in Microsoft ® Word Documents Expect to see the new changes in Word roll out to everyone in the coming months. A study on the hotly contested issue supposedly handed the victory to the two-spacers back in 2018, but many questioned the research and it clearly wasn’t enough to convince Microsoft. That hasn’t stopped the battle over one space or two from raging on for decades, however. Word and many other similar apps make fonts proportional, so two spaces is no longer necessary. Narrow characters like “i” got the same amount of space as “m,” so the extra space after the “.” was needed to make it more apparent that sentences had ended. Typewriters used monospaced fonts to allocate the same amount of horizontal spacing to every character. Much of the debate around one space or two has been fueled by the halcyon days of the typewriter. “As the crux of the great spacing debate, we know this is a stylistic choice that may not be the preference for all writers, which is why we continue to test with users and enable these suggestions to be easily accepted, ignored, or flat out dismissed in Editor,” says Kirk Gregersen, partner director of program management at Microsoft, in a statement to The Verge. The suggestion can still be ignored by two-spacers