[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think that *is* an Asian character option, though. According to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288792, that option is "Not used in U.S.
English Word." See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBCS

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Kimmie B" wrote in message
news
The culprit was found to be the €˜Balance SBCS characters and DBCS
characters
option. Asian characters seem not to have anything to do with the
problem.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

To follow up, the document had a "Custom" setting for Compatibility
Options
with number of settings referring to Asian text; I suspect one of those
was
the culprit, but Kimmie and the document author found it easier to just
change the settings wholesale, to Word 2003, which eliminated the
problem.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Kimmie B" wrote in message
...
Suzanne figured it out!

We are using Word 2003. Under Tools Options Compatibility, select
Word
2003 rather than Custom.

The problem resolved itself immediately.

Kudos to Suzanne!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Can you send me a portion of one of the problem documents? I may not
be
able
to figure out the problem, but I'd be interested in taking a look.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Kimmie B" wrote in message
...
Thanks very much Herb.
We use Word 2003, and full justification is turned off. All our
docs
have
text aligned to the left. Any idea what those funky settings might
be?

The problem seems to be unique to one user. We all start docs from
the
same
template, and no-one else's computer generates the elongated double
spaces.
However, when we open a doc that that one user created with the
elongated
double spaces on our own computer, the odd, elongated spacing
persists
within
the doc, even in new sentenes and paragraphs that someone else
subsequently
adds. If this writer opens and works on a doc that someone else
started,
the
double-spacing seems to behave normally.

So, this is what I surmise. The template is fine. The problem
originates
with settings in one person's computer. Opening the doc on someone
else's
computer does not solve the problem. The problem seems to attach
itself
to a
doc.

As to others who have so generously weighed in on the
double-vs.-single-space-at-the-end-of-a-sentence issue, regardless
of
what
anyone thinks is proper or old-fashioned, Word is behaving strangely
and
I'd
like to get it fixed.

Any clues as to how to fix the problem would be greatly appreciated.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Some combinations of settings can produce funky stuff if full
justification
is being used. Does it still act odd if justification is turned
off?
What
version of Word is being used? (If Word 2007, take a look at the
Layout
options in Word Options - Advanced, very bottom of the dialog. Are
any
of
them turned on? All turned off is the default for Word 2007--if any
are
turned on, ask why, and see if they're related to how Word treats
spaces.)

Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Kimmie B" wrote in message
...
A person on my team is getting funky spacing when he types a
double
space
at
the end of a sentence. Instead of using normal proportional
spacing,
Word
stretches out the double space so that it looks more like a
triple
or
quadruple space.

Single spaces between words behave normally, as do all other
characters.

Is there some setting that causes elongated double spacing?

To add a wrinkle, he has both Asian and Arabic characters
installed
on
his
computer.