Missing spaces between period and text in inDesign

[LetiÖ]

Hi,

I have a long text to work on inDesign and I noticed that sometimes the space is missing between the full stop/period and the first word of the next sentence. What should I write in the GREP tool in the entering field "Find what"?

Thank you for your answers!

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[vinny38 · Accepted solution]

\.\w

Should do the basic search.

But I'm sure GREP enthusiasts will come up with a more elegant solution.

I'm thinking about excluding emails or URL of the query, i.e.

[winterm]

Assuming new sentence always starts with Capital letter:

\.\u

Well, it's not more elegant  and still can give you a certain number of false positives (depends on actual text).

[LetiÖ]

It works too, thank you!

[Sandee Cohen]

I don't know about elegance, but you don't want to have to type in the change each time. This will work as a complete Find/Change:

Find:

\.(\w)

Replace

. $1

Note: There's a space between \. and $1

[LetiÖ]

Perfect! Thank you!

[LetiÖ]

It works perfectly, thanks!

[Sandee Cohen]

Does this ever happen with question marks or exclamation marks? If so there should be a way to do it for those too. I just don't know it myself.

[winterm]

I guess, vinny and I just wanted to leave some space for OP's creative mind

Well, this one will insert a space after any punctuation and any character (with Change to field revealed):

Find what: ([[:punct:]])(\w)

Change to: $1 $2

[winterm]

And for question and exclamation marks only, a bit different approach:

Find what: [\?\!]\K\w

Change to: \s$0

[winterm]

Forum is incredibly laggy today, while everything other is just fine. Am I the one? Question is already marked as 'answered', but one of my (rather early) posts is still 'being moderated'

Well...

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Just for comment! Not global but really less risky!

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