Thanks CyberTaz, but I still wonder why the strange spacing behavior occurs
only in some documents. I use the same fonts, same paragraph formats, etc.
in most of my documents. I viewed the file at up to 250% to see what was
happening.

Here's an example of one particularly strange behavior: (the "_" represents
a space)

- type "hello_world"
- on the next line, type "hello_"
- note where the cursor is positioned, relative to the characters in the
line above. In my "strange" documents, the cursor is positioned not at the
left side of the "w" above, but somewhere in the middle of the "w".
- type "w" after the "hello_".
- move the cursor back one character, to between the "_" and the "w".
- note that now, the cursor IS at the left side of the "w" above.
- hit DEL to delete the "w".
- note that the cursor moves to the right, back to somewhere in the middle
of the "w" above! It should not do that! It should not move at all when you
hit DEL.

I'm puzzled.

"CyberTaz" wrote:

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?