And if you need extra visual information, make the first run using 'Find space-period' with 'Replace by option-8' = '•', check all is well and then replace '•' with '.' .
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Regards from brianF
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"Despite being told not to reveal your Password, everyone still uses '••••••••••••'."

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On 08/11/2010, at 6:25 PM, Alan & Elaine wrote:

> Isn't there a simplistic solution here? Since you don't care what the 'any letter' is, or want to alter it, why not leave it out of the equation?
> Do a find-replace search for 'space-full stop' and replace it with a 'full stop'.
> That has always been part of my standard MS editing macro together with a similar solution for typists who insist on a space before question and exclamation marks and double spaces between sentences.
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> Cheers
> AlanD
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> On 7 Nov 2010, at 19:23, THDW wrote:
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>> Please forgive my wasting your time with such pedestrian questions - but I am sure that asking the list is quicker than seeking the response in Nisus' help.
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>> If I am looking for the string: 'any letter' followed by a space and a full stop, how do I tell Nisus that I want to remove the space but I want to keep the letter which it has found ? 
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>> How do I tell Nisus in the simplest language possible that I am looking for the string of a space, any letter, a space - but to exclude 'a' as any letter ?
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>> Both questions apply to Normal find. The other two find languages are beyond me.
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>> TIA.
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>> THDW
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