Partner: you need to be more careful with your work product, there are some places in your five page report where you only use one space before starting a sentence.
Also partner: why is it taking you so long to finalize this document?

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"easier on the eyes" is the only valid consideration

FYI in case you’re doing this manually just do a find and replace for two spaces to one! Shouldn’t take long.

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I don’t know why, but I have a hard time trusting the find and replace tool.

Lol. Clients too. “Please do everything you can to keep the bills down! This is too expensive!”
“Okay here’s the draft for your review.”
“OMG THERES ONE TYPO ON PAGE 16 I SHOULD NOT BE BILLED FOR THIS WORK!”

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I worked for one big corporate client that demanded to review every document before it was filed, but never provided any substantive feedback. I remember submitting a 25ish page appellate brief for one of the client’s VPs to review. She spotted a typo a few pages in where I used “wave” instead of “waive.” She told me to be more attentive to detail and that I needed to review the brief again. Thank you so much for that feedback. I don’t know what I’d do without you! Ugh, I’m so glad those days are in the past.

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Lack of consistency is sloppy, it’s fair enough for them to criticize you for it (there is also a setting in word where you can have this flagged in spellcheck).

Not giving you proper time to meet the standard of perfection laid out is not fair and the partner deserves criticism for that.

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Pretty sure you only used one space between the sentences in this post. Noted.

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I’m on team two-spaces-after-the-end-of-a-sentence for life. It’s the hill that I’ll die on.

Don’t get me started on those heathens who put periods outside of the quotation mark at the end of a sentence. The recent Articles of Impeachment against Trump made this grave mistake. I’m definitely not a Trump supporter, but that punctuation error made me cringe.

There's no correct answer to spacing. Do what looks best but be consistent. You can tell Word to check whichever which way you prefer.

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