Replace Spaced Indents with Real Indents
The Problem:
One of my "traditional" colleagues just loves to put four spaces at the beginning of each paragraph. I think it might be a typewriter thing. Anyway, I need to replace those spaces with a first-line indent, but I can't figure out how to do so, as there are other instances of four or more spaces in the document.
The Solution:
This sounds like a double-replace job. Replace ^p and four spaces with ^p and a distinctive stringfor example, ^pfirstlineindent. Then replace firstlineindent (or whatever) with nothing but the paragraph formatting you need: delete the contents of the "Replace with box," choose Paragraph in the Format drop-down list, specify the indentation level, click OK, and click Replace All. Alternatively, once you've deleted the whitespace (by replacing ^p and four spaces with ^p), you can use a style to apply a first-line indent to all of the paragraphs.