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Problems with what I believe are stray spaces with word
HISTORY: About 18 months ago I was doing some testing on my PC for
chinese language support, which screwed up quite a few things and I quickly removed. HOWEVER, one of the things that appears to have stuck, I "assume" from this event, is that when I use the ' or " characters in Word (or outlook in non-text mode) I get a whopping big space either before or after the single or double quote mark - depending on opening/closing I had thought that re-installing word may have fixed it 12 months ago -- no joy. I have recently upgraded to Word 2007 (another story!!) and I still have this strange behaviour! So, after all this time I'm hopeful that someone can point me in the right direction to get things "back to normal English" (you may notice I tend to quote words a bit, so this is obviously VERY ANNOYING!) Any/all help gratefull accepted |
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Problems with what I believe are stray spaces with word
This is not a Word issue. Check the Windows Regional settings and especially
the keyboard layout. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ross Ferris wrote: HISTORY: About 18 months ago I was doing some testing on my PC for chinese language support, which screwed up quite a few things and I quickly removed. HOWEVER, one of the things that appears to have stuck, I "assume" from this event, is that when I use the ' or " characters in Word (or outlook in non-text mode) I get a whopping big space either before or after the single or double quote mark - depending on opening/closing I had thought that re-installing word may have fixed it 12 months ago -- no joy. I have recently upgraded to Word 2007 (another story!!) and I still have this strange behaviour! So, after all this time I'm hopeful that someone can point me in the right direction to get things "back to normal English" (you may notice I tend to quote words a bit, so this is obviously VERY ANNOYING!) Any/all help gratefull accepted |
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Problems with what I believe are stray spaces with word
Graham,
Thanks for the suggestion, BUT if keyboard layout was the fault then would expect things like Notepad & Wordpad to fail as well -- they don't. Also, when I throw outlook (which uses Word as default editor) into text mode, would expect same issue to still be evident .... it isn't. Keyboard layout is standard US Any other thoughts welcome |
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Problems with what I believe are stray spaces with word
See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Ross Ferris" wrote in message oups.com... Graham, Thanks for the suggestion, BUT if keyboard layout was the fault then would expect things like Notepad & Wordpad to fail as well -- they don't. Also, when I throw outlook (which uses Word as default editor) into text mode, would expect same issue to still be evident .... it isn't. Keyboard layout is standard US Any other thoughts welcome |
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Stefan,
Thanks for the link/resources (need to be updated to include Word 2007) ... this all checks out - only languages enabled are English US & Australian |
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Problems with what I believe are stray spaces with word
Sometimes when you insert characters that are not in the font in use (and
often ones that are), Word jumps into MS Mincho. I've had this happen, too, most often with documents based on legacy templates, for whatever that is worth. For example, I use the single and double prime characters (U2032 and U2033, which *are* present in Times New Roman) for foot and inch marks. Very often, Word will decide it needs to use MS Mincho for these instead, with the result that following spaces are gigantic. I haven't entirely solved this problem, but it occurs less frequently. I'd be willing to bet that MS Mincho is at the base of your problems as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ross Ferris" wrote in message ups.com... HISTORY: About 18 months ago I was doing some testing on my PC for chinese language support, which screwed up quite a few things and I quickly removed. HOWEVER, one of the things that appears to have stuck, I "assume" from this event, is that when I use the ' or " characters in Word (or outlook in non-text mode) I get a whopping big space either before or after the single or double quote mark - depending on opening/closing I had thought that re-installing word may have fixed it 12 months ago -- no joy. I have recently upgraded to Word 2007 (another story!!) and I still have this strange behaviour! So, after all this time I'm hopeful that someone can point me in the right direction to get things "back to normal English" (you may notice I tend to quote words a bit, so this is obviously VERY ANNOYING!) Any/all help gratefull accepted |
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Suzanne,
I think you have pointed me in the right direction at least. I see this most often in Outlook, which is using MS Sans Serif by default .... sure enough, if I use " or ' characters, font automaticall changes to/from Times New Roman & things stuff up!! If I select everything & change the font to, say, verdana, everything comes back to right !! So, all I have to do is figure out how to change my default outlook template to use Verdana as the default font (which I prefer anyway, maybe Tahoma) and I think my problem will be "solved", or at least side-stepped |
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Problems with what I believe are stray spaces with word
On Aug 16, 12:07 am, Ross Ferris wrote:
Suzanne, I think you have pointed me in the right direction at least. I see this most often in Outlook, which is using MS Sans Serif by default .... sure enough, if I use " or ' characters, font automaticall changes to/from Times New Roman & things stuff up!! If I select everything & change the font to, say, verdana, everything comes back to right !! So, all I have to do is figure out how to change my default outlook template to use Verdana as the default font (which I prefer anyway, maybe Tahoma) and I think my problem will be "solved", or at least side-stepped THANKS SUZANNE - a quick change of tghe default theme & stationary fonts in outlook & I think my problem is (at long last) solved ! May not be THE real solution, but close enough for a casual looser like me :-) |
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