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Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A
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Default space between words

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06*am, A wrote:
Hello. *I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). *The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. *When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. *For instance
The quick * *brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A *


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Default space between words

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06*am, A wrote:
Hello. *I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). *The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. *When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. *For instance
The quick * *brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A *


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Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to check if
there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and clicks
on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06 am, A wrote:
Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A


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Default space between words

Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to check if
there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and clicks
on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06 am, A wrote:
Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A


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Thanks for the fast responses.
The spacing is not created by an accidental tab key as the boss deletes the
space and then tries to add it back. The same gap size occurs.
I just checked the Ctrl-Shift-8 and all text formatting seems OK. No extra
dots, paragraphs, etc. Character spacing was set to normal and 100%.
Nothing else was checked or listed.
Also, even weirder is that if the boss saves the document, the spacing goes
away. Bu then the assistant will modify the new saved document, give it back
to the boss, and different spaces appear!
Do you think I need to delete, say, the normal.dot template? Could it be a
virus? A bug?
Thanks again.

"vttotal" wrote:

Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to check if
there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and clicks
on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06 am, A wrote:
Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A


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Default space between words

Thanks for the fast responses.
The spacing is not created by an accidental tab key as the boss deletes the
space and then tries to add it back. The same gap size occurs.
I just checked the Ctrl-Shift-8 and all text formatting seems OK. No extra
dots, paragraphs, etc. Character spacing was set to normal and 100%.
Nothing else was checked or listed.
Also, even weirder is that if the boss saves the document, the spacing goes
away. Bu then the assistant will modify the new saved document, give it back
to the boss, and different spaces appear!
Do you think I need to delete, say, the normal.dot template? Could it be a
virus? A bug?
Thanks again.

"vttotal" wrote:

Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to check if
there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and clicks
on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing Characters,
Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot, a tab as an
arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06 am, A wrote:
Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his assistant). The
assistant will type a document that has left justification, Times New Roman,
and 12 point font. When the assistant gives the document to his boss, there
are extra spaces between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except paragraph
indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A


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Default space between words

This is probably not an error or corruption in Word itself, but a display
issue caused by a problem in the printer driver.

The most likely thing is that the boss's computer needs to have its printer
driver reinstalled, updated, or replaced. If possible, make sure it's the
same (printer model, driver version) as the one on the assistant's computer.

Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for some
explanation.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

A wrote:
Thanks for the fast responses.
The spacing is not created by an accidental tab key as the boss
deletes the space and then tries to add it back. The same gap size
occurs.
I just checked the Ctrl-Shift-8 and all text formatting seems OK. No
extra dots, paragraphs, etc. Character spacing was set to normal and
100%. Nothing else was checked or listed.
Also, even weirder is that if the boss saves the document, the
spacing goes away. Bu then the assistant will modify the new saved
document, give it back to the boss, and different spaces appear!
Do you think I need to delete, say, the normal.dot template? Could
it be a virus? A bug?
Thanks again.

"vttotal" wrote:

Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to
check if there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and
clicks on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set
to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing
Characters, Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot,
a tab as an arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06 am, A wrote:
Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his
assistant). The assistant will type a document that has left
justification, Times New Roman, and 12 point font. When the
assistant gives the document to his boss, there are extra spaces
between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words
together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except
paragraph indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A

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Default space between words


This is probably not an error or corruption in Word itself, but a display
issue caused by a problem in the printer driver.

The most likely thing is that the boss's computer needs to have its printer
driver reinstalled, updated, or replaced. If possible, make sure it's the
same (printer model, driver version) as the one on the assistant's computer.

Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for some
explanation.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

A wrote:
Thanks for the fast responses.
The spacing is not created by an accidental tab key as the boss
deletes the space and then tries to add it back. The same gap size
occurs.
I just checked the Ctrl-Shift-8 and all text formatting seems OK. No
extra dots, paragraphs, etc. Character spacing was set to normal and
100%. Nothing else was checked or listed.
Also, even weirder is that if the boss saves the document, the
spacing goes away. Bu then the assistant will modify the new saved
document, give it back to the boss, and different spaces appear!
Do you think I need to delete, say, the normal.dot template? Could
it be a virus? A bug?
Thanks again.

"vttotal" wrote:

Yes, the Ctrl-Shift-8 shortcut will be a very useful tool to use to
check if there are spacing problems in between words.

Also, make sure your friend's assistant checks "Font Properties" and
clicks on the "Character Spacing" Tag to see if the spacing is set
to normal.


Hope this helps,


Vicente Tulliano


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Could the space between quick and brown possibly have been a tab
character rather than a space? (Turn on Show Non-Printing
Characters, Ctrl-Shift-8, to check. A space will show up as a dot,
a tab as an arrow.)

On Feb 16, 11:06 am, A wrote:
Hello. I have a user that is using Word 2003 (as is his
assistant). The assistant will type a document that has left
justification, Times New Roman, and 12 point font. When the
assistant gives the document to his boss, there are extra spaces
between words. For instance
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.
When the boss tries to delete the space, it jams the words
together like this

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy sleeping dog.

The document does not seem to have any special formatting except
paragraph indents.

Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks
A

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