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[Deleted User]

Hi everyone, need some help. I have a text document and I want to delete some words from it but I don't want to lose the 'space'of those deleted words. What is happening, is when I delete the word, all other text to the right of that word moves to the left to take up the space. In most cases, this is the normal way; but is there a way I can stop this from happening.

DoaM

Deleting words from a sentence will always make the paragraph adjust to suit. If you want to keep that big gap then replace the words with the appropriate amount of space characters.

Are you meaning instead that you want the paragraph to be full-justified?

[Deleted User]

DoaM wrote: »

Deleting words from a sentence will always make the paragraph adjust to suit. If you want to keep that big gap then replace the words with the appropriate amount of space characters.

Are you meaning instead that you want the paragraph to be full-justified?

Not sure what you mean by full-justified. Can you please explain

I think you may mean a block paragraph.

DoaM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment

[Deleted User]

OK thank you for that link. We used to call that block paragraph. Would having the paragraph full justified stop the concatenation of the paragraph.

[Deleted User]

Just tried making the paragraph as full justified, and it still moves the words to take up the space when I delete. Probably, no way round the problem apart from inserting spaces.

pramsay13

I'm not sure I understand.
Maybe some photos will help.
If you delete a word everything to the right automatically moves to the left to fill the space, otherwise you would be left with random spaces.
If the text is fully justified it will just increase the space between each letter / word slightly to fill the line.
If you would really like the space to remain you simply tap the space bar for as many letters as you have taken away.
If you want it to be clear that you have deleted something you can track changes which shows what you have done to a document, or you can use strikethrough to put a score through the word.

[Deleted User]

pramsay13 wrote: »

If you would really like the space to remain you simply tap the space bar for as many letters as you have taken away.

This is what I'm trying to avoid - having to press the space bar for each character I delete. Looks like there is no way round the problem. Thanks everyone for your replies.

Le_Kirk

Highlight the word(s) you want to delete and change the font colour to white. They will still be there but not able to be seen.

DoaM

Le_Kirk wrote: »

Highlight the word(s) you want to delete and change the font colour to white. They will still be there but not able to be seen.

Unless the document is printed on non-white paper.

It's a good idea though, and probably the simplest solution for the OP. Gotta love "out of the box" thinking.

unforeseen

Change the characters to hard spaces rather than standard spaces. This prevents the automatic changing of multiple spaces to single spaces

Also known as non-breaking spaces.

In Libre Office this is Ctl-Shift-Space