My initial training includes graduate and post-graduate degrees in French literature, stylistics and linguistics. I have been working for the past 11 years as a full-time English-to-French translator for the Nova Scotia Department of Education. I’d like to address these two points in greater detail here.įirst of all, I certainly wouldn’t want Erik to be forced to “trust” me regarding anything at this point in time, since we don’t know each other personally and his response to my post does not suggest that trust was part of his reaction to my comments on the bug and the quality of Microsoft’s products.
To me, these statements suggest two things: I am also not a native French speaker, nor am I familiar with the rules of French typography…īecause I am not well-versed in French typography (or any real typography for that matter) I can only trust that Pierre’s assessment of the importance of the non-breaking space in French documents is indeed high. I am not the lead developer for Word, and I am not intimately familier with every bug that is entered against our products.
You could do that once, at the point before you send it out for review or comments.In his response to my post about the bug with non-breaking spaces and Postscript (Type 1) fonts in Word 2004 yesterday, Microsoft developer Erik Schwiebert writes: Then press Replace or Replace All and it will find single-character words (starting with the word boundary, though "\b" in the regular expression), followed by one of as you specified in your list, followed by any of the whitespace characters including the non-breaking space that follow and replace that with the character ($1 is a placeholder for the found text with the parentheses in the search expression) followed by the non-breaking space.You could, for example, press Ctrl-Shift Space at the beginning of your document, then select it, cut it, and paste it into the replace field after "$1". In replace, enter: $1 and then paste in a non-breaking space character (since the replace dialog doesn't accept the alternate means of entering that character).Check (tick or set) the Regular expressions box.Open search and replace (Ctrl-H) dialog.If after-the-fact search and replace is acceptable, have you tried: It sounds like you want to use Auto Correct (Tools | AutoCorrect ) for this, but I wonder if it might not be "better" to search and replace since AutoCorrect will only change text you manually enter, but not text that you paste (for example, pasted quotations in your research paper).