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For those of you as stunned as I am that Word now marks two spaces as an error, there's how to fix it courtesy of Microsoft Answers

Although current convention is to use just one space when using proportional fonts (two spaces were used in typing because most typewriter fonts were monospaced), you can select which convention you want to use and have Word flag exceptions (or not). At File | Options | Proofing, beside "Grammar and Refinements," click Settings... In the Grammar Settings dialog, scroll down to Punctuation Conventions. You'll see that you can select one or two space or "don't check." As to why this just started, probably no one can tell you, but this is how to fix it.

I use two spaces and you are all "no cap fr fr skibidi Ohio fam."

Fuck off.

I will not stop. And whining about it will make me double down.

If this is bugging you you deserve to be annoyed._ You're looking for reasons to be miserable._. You’re doing it to yourself. _ You give your power away to easily.

I'm over 40. I do what I want.

30s, and that's how I was taught to type, so...

How is that worse than people who use run on sentences and no punctuation?

Very interesting.   I hadn't noticed that before.   Something to consider.   I'll keep an eye out for that. /s

Such a zoomer meme.

I had a guy review a document I wrote go through and "correct" all of my spaces by adding another one.

We can also clearly tell that no one at your work cares and they probably think you're an annoying little shit.

Not 40, but I still do it. When learning to type on a computer in school it was a requirement. I don’t mind though because now when I do it, periods are automatically added for me in place of the first space.

Is this from that Oatmeal guy? He's always seemed very easily annoyed.

Two spaces is very ingrained. Will probably never stop. Didn't even know the recommendation had changed until very recently. Why?

I love that none of the commenters on this post extolling double-spacing actually have visible double-spacing in their comments.

What is a two space habit? I've never seen this in my life. I'm in my late thirties. Is this that's done only in America again?

I am under 40, but had "two spaces after a period," drilled into me as a kid. I only broke the habit in the last year, and it still feels weird every time I use just one.

You're entitled to your opinion. Congratulations.

Two spaces on a modern phone automatically gives you a full stop. Checkmate, atheists

The more acronym/initialism oriented English gets, the more that double space makes sense.

I'm still a couple of years under 40. I only did this when I needed to extend the page count of a paper. However, my old man punctuation thing is that when I use commas before and after I, "quote," something on a sentence. Also, I don't care what Microsoft Word defaults are now, I write in Times New Roman.

Just use Find/Replace.

Find (double space) Replace with (single space)