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LAMGAJ28
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Re: When you're typing...
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Re: When you're typing...
Posted by Merf99
Part of my job is writing and we follow AP style, which is 2 spaces after a period.
Time to get an updated stylebook, or subscribe online!
It's one space.
From the AP Stylebook Online (paid subscription required):
periods (.) Follow these guidelines:
END OF DECLARATIVE SENTENCE: The stylebook is finished.
END OF A MILDLY IMPERATIVE SENTENCE: Shut the door.
Use an exclamation point if greater emphasis is desired: Be careful!
END OF SOME RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: A period is preferable if a statement is more a suggestion than a question: Why don't we go.
END OF AN INDIRECT QUESTION: He asked what the score was.
MANY ABBREVIATIONS: For guidelines, see abbreviations and acronyms. For the form of frequently used abbreviations, see the entry under the full name, abbreviation, acronym or term.
INITIALS: John F. Kennedy, T.S. Eliot (No space between T. and S., to prevent them from being placed on two lines in typesetting.)
Abbreviations using only the initials of a name do not take periods: JFK, LBJ.
ELLIPSIS: See ellipsis.
ENUMERATIONS: After numbers or letters in enumerating elements of a summary: 1. Wash the car. 2. Clean the basement. Or: A. Punctuate properly. B. Write simply.
PLACEMENT WITH QUOTATION MARKS: Periods always go inside quotation marks. See quotation marks.
SPACING: Use a single space after a period at the end of a sentence.
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eroxgirl
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Re: When you're typing...
I'm old. They taught me 20 years ago to do 2, so I do 2.
I've known for probably 10 years that I should do 1 but I don't like it, so I still do 2. Plus, I work in a law firm and they don't like change.
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| Posted 2/5/11 1:43 PM |
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jodi714
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I do 1 but used to do 2. I think it changed in general but it also depends on the field you are in. Im a psychologist and the APA style manual requires 1 space. Im sure documents for other fields would require a different format.
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| Posted 2/5/11 2:20 PM |
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Erica
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Re: When you're typing...
I am holding onto 2 spaces due to habit. I like the way it looks better than 1.
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| Posted 2/6/11 10:24 AM |
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Mill188
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I'm old too - I use two spaces. I also put a space between initials. I learned on an old word processor though so you were able to adjust your typesetting. I still do it this way.
Thank you Katharine Gibbs..........
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| Posted 2/6/11 10:44 AM |
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johnsae
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EckoRed81504
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Re: When you're typing...
Since when is it 1? I always thought it was 2?
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| Posted 2/6/11 1:56 PM |
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HelenZ
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Re: When you're typing...
I believe 2 spaces are correct, at least that's the way I've always done it!!
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| Posted 2/6/11 2:47 PM |
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ThePinkGoose
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Re: When you're typing...
Posted by MrsFishstick
Comma, one
period. two
same
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| Posted 2/6/11 4:16 PM |
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funnygal79
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Re: When you're typing...
In a job seeking class I was recently taught one. They said that a lot of people do 2 due to the way they learned on a typewriter. For all my cover letters and thank you letters and resume I was told 1, but I still do 2 sometimes.  
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| Posted 2/6/11 4:24 PM |
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kahlua716
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Re: When you're typing...
I do 1
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MillerTime424
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Re: When you're typing...
its suppose to be two spaces after a "." but i always do just one.
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Re: When you're typing...
Posted by MrsFishstick
Comma, one
period. two
same here, this is how I was taught
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| Posted 2/7/11 1:24 AM |
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MrsFrizzle
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I switch back and forth, I always did one space, coming from a journalism program in college that was how we were taught. Then I had a job where we were required to do two spaces and it's hard to break that habit.
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| Posted 2/7/11 11:00 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: When you're typing...
After a period is 2 spaces. In between words within a sentence is one space. 
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| Posted 2/7/11 11:16 AM |
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Re: When you're typing...
Posted by speakthetruth
For college papers, I was taught two.
ditto...
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