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depends whether it's a work thing with footnotes or cranky judges rules. law school ruined me. but before that i was always taught 2.

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i was taught 2 spaces after each period in college.

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I always did one, then someone in college told me is should be 2 so I started doing that.

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I've always learned 2 so that's what I do. One just isn't enough

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College papers were always double spaced, but then I graduated and wroked at a newspaper. Been single spacing ever since.

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One of my college english professors always said 2, so it's become habit.

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I took typing in 8th grade. I was taught two spaces after a period (or other final punctuation like a question mark), or colon. One space after a comma or semi-colon.

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I do 2.

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i always do one space after a period.
this is the first time i'm hearing that people put two spaces after a period actually...

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2

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Can't teach this old dog new tricks, was taught 2 and cannot break the habit.

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I was always taught 2 spaces after the period. But its not a hard and fast rule for me.

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I've always done 2. I took a Keyboarding class last year and that's what we were taught as well.

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I type letters all day long and I always put 2

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I always do 1. I was never taught differently.

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i was taught to type two.

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I also was taught 2 spaces in highschool & in college.

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Was taught to do 2 which is what I've always done.

But now I suppose I have a new habit to break.

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I always use 2. At every law firm I've ever worked at, 2 spaces are used in all documents. Maybe it's different in other fields, I don't know.

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I do 1 space.

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Was taught 2. If the rules changed back to one....why doesn't it come up in Word as a grammatical error?

I like 2, I think it makes it easier to read.

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I was always taught 2 spaces after a period and 1 space after a comma.

eta: I found this online



Two Spaces After a Period--The Old Way
Here's the deal: Most typewriter fonts are what are called monospaced fonts. That means every character takes up the same amount of space. An "i" takes up as much space as an "m," for example. When using a monospaced font, where everything is the same width, it makes sense to type two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence to create a visual break. For that reason, people who learned to type on a typewriter were taught to put two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence.

One Space After a Period--The New Way
But when you're typing on a computer, most fonts are proportional fonts, which means that characters are different widths. An "i" is more narrow than an "m," for example, and putting extra space between sentences doesn't do anything to improve readability.
Although how many spaces you use is ultimately a style choice, using one space is by far the most widely accepted and logical style. The Chicago Manual of Style (1), the AP Stylebook (2), and the Modern Language Association (3) all recommend using one space after a period at the end of a sentence. Furthermore, page designers have written in begging me to encourage people to use one space because if you send them a document with two spaces after the periods, they have to go in and take all the extra spaces out.
I know it's a hard habit to break if you were trained to use two spaces, but if you can, give one space a try.

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