Microsoft Word Grammar: Microsoft Word has a “grammar lesson” for you

If you have a habit of double-spacing your sentences or just hitting the space bar twice before starting a new sentence, it will soon have to be corrected. Microsoft has made a new typographical change in Word and if you put two spaces between sentences, Word will mark it as an error. Microsoft will automatically alert users with traditional blue wavy lines.

Blue wavy lines suggest there are formatting inconsistencies in the document. This means that the double space will not be marked as an absolute error. It is more like a suggestion that you can of course choose to ignore or just right click to follow the normal format.

The use of two spaces between sentences has continued since the days of typewriters. To clearly mark the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, typists used to hit the space bar twice intentionally. This habit continues even today when people write a document, especially something official, in Microsoft Word.

Having said that, if you follow any popular style guide such as AP or Chicago Manual of Style, the use of double spaces is not recommended and it is totally acceptable to limit yourself to single spaces between sentences.

The issue of single and double spaces has been a hot topic, especially among those who went from typing on a typewriter to a computer, and finally Microsoft Word seems to have decided that using double spaces is simply not correct. This change was first observed by Professor Alan Chen of the University of Denver and was reported by
The edge.

In addition to this, another important change that Microsoft has introduced for Word users is that it has released a new all-in-one application, called Microsoft Office application, for Word, Excel and PowerPoint users. This application is now available in the Google Play Store only for Android users.