space between words

[A]

Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

 

[vttotal]

Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to check if
there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and clicks
on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano

 

[A]

Thanks for the fast responses.
The spacing is not created by an accidental tab key as the boss deletes the
space and then tries to add it back. The same gap size occurs.
I just checked the Ctrl-Shift-8 and all text formatting seems OK. No extra
dots, paragraphs, etc. Character spacing was set to normal and 100%.
Nothing else was checked or listed.
Also, even weirder is that if the boss saves the document, the spacing goes
away. Bu then the assistant will modify the new saved document, give it back
to the boss, and different spaces appear!
Do you think I need to delete, say, the normal.dot template? Could it be a
virus? A bug?
Thanks again.

 

[Jay Freedman]

This is probably not an error or corruption in Word itself, but a display
issue caused by a problem in the printer driver.

The most likely thing is that the boss's computer needs to have its printer
driver reinstalled, updated, or replaced. If possible, make sure it's the
same (printer model, driver version) as the one on the assistant's computer.

Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for some
explanation.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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