Using regular expressions to remove extra spaces

[Princess Columbia]

Those who've looked into my previously posted questions will know I'm dealing with large batches of static web pages created by teams of people who essentially are simply copy/pasting the content into some "templates" (pre-made HTML files that are opened in Dreamweaver and the data pasted in, not actual Dreamweaver templates). This results in a large number of artifacts that I've been using Dreamweaver 2015's saved search function to remedy.

The one area that I don't have a saved search for is when large blocks of spaces show up in the pasted text. Example:

"I am              the very model of a modern Major                                                     General."

What I'd like to do is create a saved search that only finds instances of a character of text or a number that have two or more spaces and replace the entire block of spaces with a single space.

I'm pretty sure even a very basic means of doing this is available with regular expressions, but I don't know enough about regex to be able to put this together myself and I'm having a hard time tracking down a decent reference that would explain how to build such.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

No RegEx approach.

In Current Document

Find: Hit Spacebar twice

Replace: Hit Backspace once.

Hit Replace All button.

Before:

After: