In the beginning, the rules of space bar were simple. Two spaces after each period. Every time. Easy. That made sense in the age of the typewriter. Letters of uniform width looked cramped without ...

(CNN) -- Microsoft has made its typographical decree: Two spaces between sentences is too many. The style choice will now be marked as an error in Microsoft Word ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Microsoft has made its typographical decree: ...

Within the last week, I've seen at least a half dozen instances of posts where the writer failed to put a space after each sentence.I've even seen it here at Ars.I assume this is a new officially ...

Nothing says “This was written by an amateur” like … nothing. White space. Blank space. The number of times you hit that long button at the bottom of a keyboard. Knowing when to insert a space can ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Microsoft has made its typographical decree: ...

(CNN) — Microsoft has made its typographical decree: Two spaces between sentences is too many. The style choice will now be marked as an error in Microsoft Word ...

The habit of using two spaces is a relic from the era of typewriters, when typists spaced twice to more clearly define the end of a sentence. Characters were “monospaced” back then, which means they ...