How to prevent Microsoft Word from marking two spaces after a period as an error

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Until 20 years, thanks to typewriters, it was common to see sentences written with two spaces at the point. Finally, Microsoft Word has started marking double spaces as an error by default. If you are a double spacer who hates this idea, here we show you how to prevent it from happening.

Microsoft has confirmed which will start marking double spaces as a typo, so if you are interested in the two-space side of the argument, you will soon find out that your two spaces just after a dot suddenly get dirty with a red dotted line.

RELATED: How to change double spaces to single spaces in Microsoft Word

You can prevent this error message from appearing by changing a setting within Word. Regular Office updates will honor any configuration changes you make, so when word changes its default behavior, will not be affected.

To change settings, open any Word document and click File> Choices.

The menu item "Choices"

Next, select Review> Setting.

The Review option and the button "Setting".

Scroll down to the section “Punctuation conventions”, change “spaces between sentences” a “two spaces” and then click the button “To accept”.

This will cause Word to enforce the use of two spaces and mark a single space after a period as an error, keeping your writing consistent. If you don't care how many spaces appear after a period and you don't want Word to check, select “do not mark” in this frame.

The panel

Click the button “To accept” again to exit the Options panel and then you are done. Henceforth, Microsoft Word will not mark two spaces after a sentence as an error. If an update changes this, you can always go back to the Word Processor Settings menu and change it again.

If you can't break the habit of writing two spaces after each sentence, you can have Word automatically change double spaces to single spaces.

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