That is usually an indication of a bad or incorrect printer driver.
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Anne Troy
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"utlawstudent" wrote in message
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Product: MS Word Professional Edition 2003

When printing a Word document, some spaces appear between characters
within
a word. The words appear withouth the unwanted spaces on the screen, but
the
spaces appear on the printed page.

Has anyone encountered this problem?