Hello-

First of all, don't be fooled by what you are seeing on screen... Even at
100%. Print Preview gives you the most accurate representation of what to
expect on paper, but even it is sometimes misleading because the display
cannot match the printer quality.

What you are observing is most likely evidence of proportional spacing.
Adjustments are being made every time you you type content in or change
character formatting in order to provide typeset quality output. This
applies to spaces as well... The actual amount of space is adjusted based on
the combination of characters that precede and follow it as well as the
other text on the line.

HTH |:)


On 8/9/05 8:39 PM, in article
, "Peteybaby"
wrote:

When I type a space after a word, the cursor moves to the right by the width
of a fairly large space. Then when I type the first letter of the next word,
the size of the space shrinks down to a more normal width. Why does this
happen, and why only in some documents?

Also, I find that the gap that Word gives me if I type one space after a
period at the end of a sentence, is too small, but if I type two spaces Word
gives me a gap that's about 5 times bigger than the gap with one space.
What's going on?