Whenever I am opening a doc file created using MS Word the spaces in the files are getting coloured. I can solve by deleting the space and again giving space. But this is not a solution at all, as this is not possible to edit the whole document. I am giving a picture. Please tell me what is the problem and how can I solve it?
The gray background is a visual clue given by Writer that your “space” is not the common U+0020 SPACE but U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE.
This means the initial writer typed Ctrl+Space or Ctrl+Shift+Space (depending on OS and application configuration) . Maybe he wanted to “fix” some justification layout where the usual space was stretched too much, resulting in a bad looking line. This is not at all recommended.
You have two options:
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ignore the clue (the gray background does not print, not appear in a PDF export)
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use
Edit>Find & Replaceto change all offending spaces to usual spaces; WARNING! You’ll also remove non-breaking space where they are legitimate (such as between a number and a unit, like 10 pt so that line wrap never occurs between the number and the unit)- copy the offending character
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Edit>Find & Replace, paste into Find, enter a space in to Replace - push
Replace(manually checking every occurrence) orReplace All(if you’re confident)
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Thank you for the help.
What you are seeing is non-breaking spaces (which can be inserted in LO Writer using Ctrl+Shift+Space). They are used to prevent two words from being separated at the end of a line.
You can use Find and Replace to remove them, by copying one into the Find field and simply entering a space in the Replace field.
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Thnx for the info.