Spacing at end of sentence

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Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of sentences).

Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

sentence with only one space. How about you all?

Sharon T

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[Guest guest]

I use 2 also. I hope I don't have to go to only using 1 space.

Shari

Spacing at end of sentence

Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of sentences).

Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

sentence with only one space. How about you all?

Sharon T

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[Guest guest]

I'm a two spacer myself and an old timer with typing anyway. In my course

though they required us to use just one space at the end of a sentence. It

was very hard to adjust to doing it that way after so many years of doing it

the other way.

Laurilee

Spacing at end of sentence

> Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of

sentences).

> Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

> prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

> throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

> sentence with only one space. How about you all?

> Sharon T

>

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[Guest guest]

Sharon, as you might imagine, this spacing quandary has become a big issue

in the classroom. What to teach?

Interestingly enough, the first software that came through with the

directive to " space once after a period " in anything other than material to

be published (in, say, PageMaker) was Microsoft Word, so there's one more

thing to be angry at Bill Gates about.

I have decided to take classwork spaced either way and to teach students

how to meet the needs of their employer, whatever those needs might

be. If you are a one-spacer working under one-spacer conditions or a

two-spacer working under two-spacer conditions, you're in good

shape. Otherwise, create an auto-correct entry to accommodate your spacing

habit and the employer's spacing requirement. Thus, I (a two-spacer) might

create an auto-correct entry that will take a period and two spaces (. )

and turn it into a period and one space (. ). Then my fingers are happy

and my employer is happy.

To me, this is a worse, and less defensible, change in formatting than the

English teachers decreeing, after I spent 35 years perfecting my ability to

include footnotes in a research document and then getting software that did

them automatically, that annotated references and not footnotes are the way

to attribute documentation.

At 05:04 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, Sharon Tadrowski wrote:

>Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of sentences).

>Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

>prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

>throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

>sentence with only one space. How about you all?

>Sharon T

>

Valeria D. Truitt

Curriculum Coordinator and Lead Instructor

Medical Office Administration

Craven Community College

800 College Court

New Bern, NC 28562

Phone:

[Guest guest]

The DOS software we use based on Word Perfect, I don't know of a correction

for too many spaces between words or after periods. Perhaps others no away

around this. I know in Word it will since if you have too many spaces

between words with colored lines but my work software is in the dark ages.

Sharon T.

Re: Spacing at end of sentence

Sharon, as you might imagine, this spacing quandary has become a big issue

in the classroom. What to teach?

Interestingly enough, the first software that came through with the

directive to " space once after a period " in anything other than material

to

be published (in, say, PageMaker) was Microsoft Word, so there's one more

thing to be angry at Bill Gates about.

I have decided to take classwork spaced either way and to teach students

how to meet the needs of their employer, whatever those needs might

be. If you are a one-spacer working under one-spacer conditions or a

two-spacer working under two-spacer conditions, you're in good

shape. Otherwise, create an auto-correct entry to accommodate your

spacing

habit and the employer's spacing requirement. Thus, I (a two-spacer)

might

create an auto-correct entry that will take a period and two spaces (. )

and turn it into a period and one space (. ). Then my fingers are happy

and my employer is happy.

To me, this is a worse, and less defensible, change in formatting than the

English teachers decreeing, after I spent 35 years perfecting my ability

to

include footnotes in a research document and then getting software that

did

them automatically, that annotated references and not footnotes are the

way

to attribute documentation.

At 05:04 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, Sharon Tadrowski wrote:

>Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of

sentences).

>Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

>prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

>throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

>sentence with only one space. How about you all?

>Sharon T

>

Valeria D. Truitt

Curriculum Coordinator and Lead Instructor

Medical Office Administration

Craven Community College

800 College Court

New Bern, NC 28562

Phone:

[Guest guest]

One account 2 spaces -- another account 1 space.

I just change my Instant Text settings with each account.

Neither pays by the line, BTW. One pays by word and the other by dictated

minute.

Rennie

Spacing at end of sentence

Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of sentences).

Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

sentence with only one space. How about you all?

Sharon T

[Guest guest]

You'd probably have to have a macro for it in WP DOS.

Rennie

RE: Spacing at end of sentence

The DOS software we use based on Word Perfect, I don't know of a correction

for too many spaces between words or after periods. Perhaps others no away

around this. I know in Word it will since if you have too many spaces

between words with colored lines but my work software is in the dark ages.

Sharon T.

[Guest guest]

I believe I'd make a macro that would find all instances of a period

followed by two spaces and replace them with a period and one space. Or

just do a global search and replace on each document. It's been a while

since I used WP 5.1, and that's to the best of my recollection at this

point in time. lol

P. S. I do a lot of work in HTML these days, and you wouldn't believe what

a bear it is to get a second (or succeeding) space to show in an HTML

document published on the Internet. One must put in the HTML code for each

space ( & nbsp;).

At 07:03 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, Rennie wrote:

>You'd probably have to have a macro for it in WP DOS.

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>Rennie

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>The DOS software we use based on Word Perfect, I don't know of a correction

>for too many spaces between words or after periods. Perhaps others no away

>around this. I know in Word it will since if you have too many spaces

>between words with colored lines but my work software is in the dark ages.

>

>Sharon T.

>

Valeria D. Truitt

Curriculum Coordinator and Lead Instructor

Medical Office Administration

Craven Community College

800 College Court

New Bern, NC 28562

Phone:

[Guest guest]

I, too, learned to type years ago when 2 spaces was the norm, but as I

traded in my typewriter for a computer, I learned that with proportional

spacing, 2 spaces were no longer required and I made the switch to 1. When

I first began at TeM, I had 2 accounts; one required a single space after

periods, and the other (you guessed it!) wanted 2. I was afraid I would

have a terrible time switching back and forth, but it was surpisingly easy.

Interestingly, my new account doesn't care as long as we are consistent.

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BA English

Career Step Grad

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Spacing at end of sentence

> Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of

sentences).

> Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

> prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

> throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

> sentence with only one space. How about you all?

> Sharon T

>

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[Guest guest]

I try VERY hard to do just the one space I'm supposed to be using but

sometimes another one will sneak out.

I agree that it is very difficult to get used to looking at one space

when proofreading and know that it is correct. Getting used to typing

one space is much easier, I find.

Sylvia Roller

M-TEC Student - Session 4-5

gentlsong@...

AIM: Jntlsong

>I'm a two spacer myself and an old timer with typing anyway. In my

>course

>though they required us to use just one space at the end of a

>sentence. It

>was very hard to adjust to doing it that way after so many years of

>doing it

>the other way.

>

>Laurilee

>

> Spacing at end of sentence

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>>Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of

>sentences).

>>Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this

>>company

>>prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we

>>standardized

>>throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to

>>looking at a

>>sentence with only one space. How about you all?

>>Sharon T

>>

>>

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[Guest guest]

One of those old timer 2-spacers here. Fortunately, both services I work with

prefer the same. If I'm required to use 1 I use autocorrect and go merrily

along with my old habits.

Dawn C. §(ºoº)§

M-TEC Student

IC, Ortho - 1+ years, IM

AIM: fasthands47

Spacing at end of sentence

Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of sentences).

Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

sentence with only one space. How about you all?

Sharon T

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Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

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[Guest guest]

Either way, two spaces or one, is easy with Word Perfect keyboard change or

Word Autotext. It saves so much time.

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>To: " NMTC " <NMTC >

>Subject: Spacing at end of sentence

>Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 17:04:32 -0500

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>Was wondering how many of you use 2 spaces after periods (end of

>sentences).

>Probably most of us old timers. I know when I started with this company

>prior to MedQuist they accepted either way as long as we standardized

>throughout the report. I am a 2 spacer and can't get used to looking at a

>sentence with only one space. How about you all?

>Sharon T

>

>

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>Version: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 4/24/2003

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