Users will be able to accept the change, ignore it once or disable the program’s ability to highlight two-space gaps entirely. Microsoft Word is an exceedingly passive editor and can be rejiggered to ignore all sorts of spelling and grammar quirks it might otherwise flag.
Though the feature isn’t yet universal, the company has begun trialing the change in desktop versions of the program and will likely be rolling it out to all users soon.īefore panic ensues among “two-spacers,” take comfort in the fact that the program’s suggestion is just that-a suggestion. As Tom Warren reports for the Verge, Microsoft Word has started marking double spaces between sentences as errors. Now, a veritable powerhouse has entered the fray-and definitively taken a side. Some maintain that two spaces between sentences make paragraphs easier to read others, like Slate’s Farhad Manjoo, who wrote in 2011 that “typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong,” vehemently disagree. Virtual wars have been waged over that humble second space. It centers on the idea of nothingness-specifically, the number of spaces found between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another.Īnd what a difference a single keystroke can make. One of the greatest debates in typographical history is arguably an empty one.
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