[Bill Helbron]

Can someone please tell me why, when I type a word immediately followed by a
semicolon, it automatically inserts a space between the word and the
semicolon? Thanks!

Bill

[grammatim[_2_]]

The language of your document is probably set to French (that's how
they do it).

Assuming 2000 is a lot like 2003, select your whole document (Ctrl-A),
go to Tools Language Set Language, and pick one of the English
varieties.

On Mar 7, 5:25*pm, "Bill Helbron" wrote:
Can someone please tell me why, when I type a word immediately followed by a
semicolon, it automatically inserts a space between the word and the
semicolon? Thanks!

Bill

[Bill Helbron]

Thanks for your reply and suggestion but all of my documents have the
default set at "English (U.S.)"!

Bill


"grammatim" wrote in message
...
The language of your document is probably set to French (that's how
they do it).

Assuming 2000 is a lot like 2003, select your whole document (Ctrl-A),
go to Tools Language Set Language, and pick one of the English
varieties.

On Mar 7, 5:25 pm, "Bill Helbron" wrote:
Can someone please tell me why, when I type a word immediately followed by
a
semicolon, it automatically inserts a space between the word and the
semicolon? Thanks!

Bill

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Regardless of what the "default" is, the language at the insertion point
could well be French. Language is a property that can be applied to a unit
as small as a single character.

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

"Bill Helbron" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply and suggestion but all of my documents have the
default set at "English (U.S.)"!

Bill


"grammatim" wrote in message
...
The language of your document is probably set to French (that's how
they do it).

Assuming 2000 is a lot like 2003, select your whole document (Ctrl-A),
go to Tools Language Set Language, and pick one of the English
varieties.

On Mar 7, 5:25 pm, "Bill Helbron" wrote:
Can someone please tell me why, when I type a word immediately followed
by a
semicolon, it automatically inserts a space between the word and the
semicolon? Thanks!

Bill