Finding blank spaces at the start of segments

I've recently 'upgraded' the dictation software that I use and am unfortunately now finding that it regularly inserts a blank space at the start of segments in Studio. While I can activate 'Show Whitespace Characters' to help me spot these, with larger files, this means manually scrolling through hundreds/thousands of segments. Does anyone know if there's a way of easily searching for blank spaces at the start of segments using verification checks (the 'double space' check does not pick them up)? Thanks!

Example of the issue:

Screenshot showing a segment in Trados Studio with an unwanted blank space at the start before the text 'This is an example.'



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[edited by: RWS Community AI at 9:39 AM (GMT 0) on 27 Nov 2024]
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    Use the Display filter from the Review tab. Enter there

    ^\s\w

    This will filter all segments with starting space. Now you can run a search and replace with regex:

    Search for ^\s(\w)

    Replace with §1

    Also search for ^\s and replace with nothing should work at once

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  • Thank you SO much Jerzy! Filtering by ^\s\w didn't seem to work for me but I played around a little and found that filtering by just ^\s did. 

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    Glad it worked. Enjoy dictating and have fun with Studio Slight smile

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