Suzanne
Wed Aug 15 08:48:43 CDT 2007
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.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Ross Ferris" <rossf@stamina.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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
>