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Re:Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as ... by Gibbon1 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:15AM (#22975779)
I came to say I know a couple of people that edit and format documents for a living and they hate getting documents with double spaces.
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Re:Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as ... by PunksATawnyFill on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:55AM (#22976732)
Why?
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Re:Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as ... by ghaff on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:30AM (#22977594)
Because whether or not it is "correct" in some meta-sense, it probably isn't the style used by whatever organization they're doing the editing for. Organizations tend to have style guides for external documents. (And may go off different style guides/rules for different purposes.)
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Re:Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as ... by Gibbon1 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:19PM (#22981597)
Because double spaces mess up their formatting tools. So they need to purge them always. If they miss one sometimes it means they need to go back, remove the errant double space and start over. Bonus getting a proof back and the customer put the double spaces back in.

Source: Way way too OCD for me ex-gf.

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Re:Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as ... by sosborn on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:42AM (#22976935)
Because it is usually incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing_in_language_a...
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