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Small circles that slip between words

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michel75010a -  
Hello,

I would like to get rid of the small circles that appear in the spaces between words and link the words together through formatting and hyphenation: all the words connected by these small circles are considered by Word as a single word. I am attaching a screenshot with a Word text and these small circles that I would like to remove.

Thank you for your help!



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5 answers

  1.  eriiic Contributor
    Hello,

    copy your round (which is a non-breaking space), deselect it then Ctrl+h
    Replace: paste the character (or type Alt+0160)
    By: put a space
    Replace all. Possibly restore the necessary non-breaking spaces.
    eric

    By continuously trying, we eventually succeed.
    So the more it fails, the more chances we have for it to work. (the Shadoks)
    In addition to the thank you (yes, yes, it can be done!!!), remember to mark it as resolved. Thank you
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    1. astuces72
      I'm not sure it's a non-breaking space; normally, it's empty!
      Or the circle doesn't look like that.
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    2. PapyLuc51
      Well seen Éric (greetings)

      I clicked on the non-breaking space icon and the little dots and circles appeared - so just deselect the non-breaking space button.

      Regards
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    3. astuces72
      okay, I said nothing :D
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    5. telliak
      Hello,
      The answer given by eriiic provides the steps to fix the issue mentioned: 
      copy your round (which is a E non-breaking space), deselect it then Ctrl+h 
      Replace: paste the character (or type Alt+0160) 
      With: add a space 
      Replace all. You can also restore the necessary non-breaking spaces afterwards.

      You can also enter ^s in the Find field of the Replace tab.
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  2. astuces72
    Hi

    What happens when you create a new document?
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    1. michel75010a
      Hello, when I create a document, it is often based on copy/paste taken from the internet. I have NEVER tried to include small circles. Thanks to Eric, I managed to remove them by replacing them with a simple space. But I wonder how we can do without these circles...
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  3. Anonymous user
    Hello

    Where does the text come from? Did you write it or is it copied from somewhere else?

    ;)

    --
    It's always wrong to try to be right in front of people who have all the good reasons to believe they are not wrong! (Raymond Devos)
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    1. michel75010a
      It’s my text.
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  4. PapyLuc51
    Hello

    Check in file / options / Display if Space is unchecked.

    Best regards
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    1. PapyLuc51
      I would add that for the little circles "o" I don't know what they are; we need something concrete to work on; provide an example page via cjoint ===>see this link

      Best regards
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    2. michel75010a
      michel75010a

      Hello and thank you for your response, I checked what you indicated but the small circles still exist; between two small circles, the words have strictly the same formatting and are linked together as a single word. This creates gaps in the text because there are many line breaks. I delete them manually. Did you see the photo of the screenshot that I attached to my question? Thank you
      michel75010a
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    3. michel75010a
      Désolé, je ne peux pas accéder aux liens ou aux fichiers externes. Si vous avez un texte à traduire, vous pouvez le copier et le coller ici.
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    4. PapyLuc51
      @michel75010aRe:
      Well, that's surprising because when I opened your link, there are no points between each word (previously mentioned issue) but there are no circles and everything is normal; I don't know how to help other than maybe trying an Office repair and cleaning up the PC with CCleaner (among others)

      https://www.commentcamarche.net/download/s/nettoyer%20pc

      Someone more experienced with Word will be better able to understand the problem.

      Best regards
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    5. michel75010a
      When I create a text, the little circles appear somewhat randomly depending on the formatting.
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  6. Adelineb15
    Hello

    It might be non-printable characters that indicate the formatting of the documents. If you want to remove them, click on the ¶ button or press Ctrl+8.
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    1. michel75010a
      Hello Adeline,
      these are indeed non-printable characters, but masking them does not delete them. Thank you.
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