Text 18 Nov Tip #6: Ignoring extra spaces - when and why?

Most of the time, it’s worth letting FatFingers.com to look for misspellings with an extra space in it.

For example, someone once told me they’d won an iPod for a quarter of the going price because Fat Fingers had found an ‘i pod’ on eBay.

But for some words this doesn’t work so well.  PlayStation is often spelled Play Station and a ‘bedside light’ can be a ‘bed side light’.

In these cases, use the ‘Ignore Extra Spaces’ option and these spelling variants will be ignored.

On the FatFingers.com website, click the ‘[Show Options]’ link and tick ‘Don’t search for extra spaces’.  Then press the Find button:

Ignore extra spaces option

On Fat Fingers for iPhone/iPod touch and for Android devices (free: search for ‘Fat Fingers’ on the App Store or Market) use the options screen:

Fat Fingers for iPhone options screen


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