>Nadya,
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>>As far as I can judge without actually trying this code, it would not work, if you enter a space, when hit BackSpace or delete (e.g. Number of spaces will be incorrect).
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>yikes! of course, you're right. back to the drawing board.
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Basically, it's a little addition to the existing code:
Pseudocode

if keycode=code(delete) or keycode=code(backspace) and .LastSymbolWasSpace
    .NumberOfTralingSpaces=.NumberOfTralingSpaces-1
    .LastSymbolWasSpace=(.NumberOfTralingSpaces>0)
endif

>>BTW, you made a typo in a "reset" word.
>thanks ;-) sometimes my fingers aren't connected to the spelling part of my brain.
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>> What about initialization this control as space(30) by default?
>what would that do for me?
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Just thought, may be it will help? :)