How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

[Harro de Jong]

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:

> I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove
> trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either
> imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I
> have a plethora of these and the closest I have got is to:
> Find: Text: ". \p"
> Replace: Text: ".\p"
> but this results in the new \p taking on the paragraph attributes of
> the next line, removing extra vertical space or changing to
> superscript if next line starts on a superscript.

You can do it in two steps:
1. Create a character tag that changes the font. 
2. Find . \p, Replace 'by pasting' with that character tag. 
3. Select one of the spaces you've just converted. and Copy this space. 
4. Find "text and character formats on clipboard", Replace "To text" and
leave the text box empty. 
This will leave the \p with the new character tag. This will be an issue
if the \p is in a paragraph that is used in a generated list (TOC,
etc.), but otherwise I don't think it'll be a problem. 

Alternatively, this can be done with a scripting tool like QuickKeys. 

Harro de Jong