You are quite correct that Help doesn't make it easy to find, but as you see,
the info is there. The real improvement needed in Word is in the
documentation/Help. Oddly enough, if you had searched for 'em space' rather
than 'space' you would have gotten a better response, but still not clearly
denoted.
BTW - one other thought just for clarity re
A layout program...
Word *is not* (nor have I ever seen anything from MS proclaiming it to be) a
Layout program. It is & always has been a _word processing_ application,
although the concessionary 'features' that have been added over the years
have created & perpetuated the misconception that it is otherwise.
Regards |:)
"jones0430" wrote:
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.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"jones0430" wrote in message
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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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