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.
(e) Removing Unwanted Characters and Space in Microsoft ® Word Documents
