USING THE 27TH & 28TH LETTERS -- SPACEs & RETURNs

• The task is to learn to gobble spaces quickly, eliminate incorrect RETURNS/ENTERS and to add spaces when necessary
• You will be COPYING and PASTING the RED TEXT BELOW into your word processor
• In the text, the writer pushed RETURN/ENTER and SPACE BAR mistakenly many times. Your mission is to clean up the errors to make the writing into one nice looking paragraph
• When you're done, check that the paragraph begins with 1 TAB and that there is 1 space consistently between sentences.
• In using any word processor, pushing RETURN or SPACE BAR can be hazardous to your health. It is probably best to say that the alphabet consists of 28 letters, A-Z, SPACE BAR and RETURN.
• The RETURN button ends the current line and moves any remaining text to the next line. As a result, it appears catastrophic when you push RETURN in the middle of a line. Try it now, moving the mouse anywhere into the above paragraph, clicking once and pushing RETURN. Once the tear occurs, you can push BACKSPACE or DELETE once and you'll see the paragraph join together again. The procedure is the same for making two paragraphs into oneŃput the cursor at the front of the second paragraph and push BACKSPACE or DELETE until they become one.
• In summary, we can say that there are 3 correct uses for RETURN: to end a paragraph: to skip blank lines, to end a short line (e.g. Dear Ms. Jones or lines of poetry) Useful trick? Use the Show/Hide icon (if possible) to view the hidden characters.

MostBoston    fans remember the     fifth game of the    Eastern 
playoff seriesagainst the Pistons in 1986.     Detroit was up   by 
one point and was     throwing the ball in with 5      seconds left on 
the clock. Isiah 
 lofted the in-bounds pass to Laimbeer     and Bird      stole the 
pass.   He countedin his   head 5,4,3,2,1 just in time to     pass to 
DJ who put in the layup to win the game.Without    question, this   
was a trulyamazing Celtic      win!  So where were you anyway when 
that fifth game took place and 
 Larry stole the ball? Were you watching the game on Sports 
Channel? 
 Were 
 you listening to Johny Most on the radio? Or perhaps were you 
ignoring the event altogether?I must confess, I was in an 
embarrassing                                spot, since I didnŐt decide to 
subscribe to Sports Channel until the following year. 
My wife was out at a local PTA meeting and my 2 year old son was 
fast asleep.    My 7 year old daughterand I were listening on the 
radio, 
 but as the drama unfolded, we wanted desperately to be watching 
the game.  We spotted my neighborŐs big screen TV tuned in to the 
Boston Garden. Yes, they had subscribed to Cable TV and we hadnŐt! 
So 
we took a portable radio into our backyard 
and walked to the corner of our yard. With our feet in the wood 
chips, we watched those last 5 unbelievable seconds on TV as Larry 
stole the ball, passed to DJ and the Celtics won the game. 
Unbelievable!