FWIW, when I want to insert a special character, I tend to look for it in
the Symbol dialog rather than Help.
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"jones0430" wrote in message
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So they are. Then why doesn't the help system point this out? Searching
for
spaces brings up many technically correct entries, but typographical
spaces
are not mentioned. A layout program ought to document this ability. I
don't
have the patience to search by discovery.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Depends what you mean by "support." I've been using en and em spaces in
my
documents for many versions now. Em and en spaces, as well as 1/4 em
space,
are on the Special Characters tab of the Insert | Symbol dialog, and you
can
assign keyboard shortcuts to them as I have. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm. These and other
spaces can be found in the 2002-200A character range in Arial Unicode
MS,
Lucida Sans Unicode, and some other fonts. I suspect that Word inserts
them
from MS Mincho, since they have a regrettable tendency to revert to that
font under stress. If these glyphs were included in Times New Roman,
Arial,
and other Windows core fonts, it would certainly help.
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"jones0430" wrote in message
...
Microsoft misrepresents Word to the Business Community as a page
layout
program. I have labored under this for many years, as many companies
believe
that you can produce large and complex documentation using Microsoft
Word.
Word does not even support the use of en-, em-, thin, or number
spaces,
all
accepted standard typographical spaces. How many more years will
Microsoft
continue to fail to support these basic typographical layout elements?
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