How To Remove A Space To The Right Of All Text In A Document

Hi all.

I have a large document that somehow on line 63 and after a space has been inserted to the left of every line including lines without text, I have no earlier version due to a set of HDD's all deciding to fail one after the other and loosing them all before new rives arrived, this version was downloaded from google docs with the problem.

Have tried everything and searched with no solution to date.

anyone know of a way, have spent many hours working on fixing it but I'm a small percentage into it.

Many thanks.

Jaymo

 

What sort of document is it? How many pages?

 

Stored as .doc on Google Docs but the can be and has been used within a .txt document multiple pages (8) as .doc

 

If it's just a plain text document, you could use Powershell to trim the white space.

Code:

$source = "$env:userprofile\Desktop\SomeFile.txt"
$dest = "$env:userprofile\Desktop\Edited.txt"
Remove-Item $dest -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$lines = Get-Content $source
Foreach ($line in $lines) { $str = $line.Trim(); Add-Content $dest -Value $str }

Just substitute the actual source and dest file paths, then run powershell and copy/paste the script and press enter.

 

Thank you

 

Notepad++ is the best editor around. You could do a search & replace - just put 2 spaces in the search and one in the replace. If they are aligned you can use select and remove them, see the attachment.

 

Thanks, used it many years ago.

Much appreciated.