"mcourtne" wrote:
Thanks for your help. I ended up condensing or expanding character
spacing in areas that were particularly bad. Hopefully Microsoft will
address this in future versions of Word.

It's already a featu You can use "distributed" text (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of "justified" text (Ctrl+J).
But it's generally considered bad typography. It's an option because distributed text is useful with Asian scripts.

Greetings,
Klaus