kerning & Tracking

[Sul@Microsoft]

Can Word XP format a doc so that there is One Space between letters (of a
word) and Two space between words ?

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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I don't have that version of Word anymore... but, have you looked at the
font spacing settings? They might give you what you want. Assuming Word
2002 works the same as Word 2003, select the text and try Format - Font -
Character Spacing tab. Set Spacing: to Expanded. By: set at 1pt appears to
provide something similar to what you describe... you might want to
experiment with larger By: values.

 

[sul@microsoft]

thanks for quick reply
not actually what I am looking for though

 

[Jay Freedman]

Can Word XP format a doc so that there is One Space between letters (of a
word) and Two space between words ?

The quick brown fox becomes

T h e q u i c k b r o w n f o x b e c o m e s

This has nothing to do with kerning (which Word does automatically), but it is
tracking (which Word calls "spacing"). Select the text, go to Format > Font >
Character Spacing and set the Spacing boxes to Expanded and some number of
points, for example 6 pt (note that in proportional fonts there is no fixed size
for "one space").

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Well... for precisely what you're looking for, you could use Find/Replace
and actually insert spaces. However, you then lose the ability to use
spelling and some other features, since Word will no longer recognize the
words. But, since you specified "format", the only formatting control that
Word has that is similar to what you asked for is what I described. If you
experimented using various By: values, I'm surprised that you didn't find
what you wanted. I tried it here and was able to generate something that was
extremely close to what you get when manually adding spaces between letters
and words.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com

 

[sul@microsoft]

my apologies for using the word "format"
WYSIWYG
your method works but what I require is an actual space

t1h1e11q1u1i1c1k where 1 = actual space
(reason for asking whether this exists; trying to post a message to a forum
but the forum bans the use of certain words and I figure the way to beat it
is to insert a space between letters of a word and 2 space between words)

 

[sul@microsoft]

I am been trying to understand what is kerning and tracking
your method works but this is not what I am looking for
thanks

 

[Terry Farrell]

Are these always the same words? If so, you can create the words with the
spaces manually once and save each as an AutoText entry. You could get
AutoCorrect to automatically change the words too, but that would be a
problem if you didn't want the words spaced at any time.

 

[Terry Farrell]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter-spacing

for comprehensive explanations.

 

[sul@microsoft]

thanks for the tip

Are these always the same words? If so, you can create the words with the
spaces manually once and save each as an AutoText entry. You could get
AutoCorrect to automatically change the words too, but that would be a
problem if you didn't want the words spaced at any time.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Based on the other branch of this thread, the real objective is neither kerning
nor letter spacing -- it is to insert real space characters in order to make the
words unrecognizable to forum software. You could just as well use other
characters such as underscores instead of spaces. That is not formatting, it's
text editing or modification.

As Terry suggested, if the words you want to modify are always the same ones,
use AutoText or AutoCorrect. If you want to be able to change any selected text,
use this macro, which you can assign to a shortcut or toolbar button:

Sub InsertSpaces()
Dim sIn As String, sOut As String
Dim i As Integer

sIn = Selection.Text
For i = 1 To Len(sIn)
sOut = sOut & Mid$(sIn, i, 1) & " "
Next

Selection.Text = sOut
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm,
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm, and
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm if
needed.

You might also look into using ROT13, a common way of "hiding" text in posts
(it's built into some posting software): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot13 and
http://www.google.com/search?q=rot13.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all
may benefit.

 

[sul@microsoft]

thanks and will try the macro

Based on the other branch of this thread, the real objective is neither
kerning
nor letter spacing -- it is to insert real space characters in order to
make the
words unrecognizable to forum software. You could just as well use other
characters such as underscores instead of spaces. That is not formatting,
it's
text editing or modification.

As Terry suggested, if the words you want to modify are always the same
ones,
use AutoText or AutoCorrect. If you want to be able to change any selected
text,
use this macro, which you can assign to a shortcut or toolbar button:

Sub InsertSpaces()
Dim sIn As String, sOut As String
Dim i As Integer

sIn = Selection.Text
For i = 1 To Len(sIn)
sOut = sOut & Mid$(sIn, i, 1) & " "
Next

Selection.Text = sOut
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm,
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm,
and
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm if
needed.

You might also look into using ROT13, a common way of "hiding" text in
posts
(it's built into some posting software):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot13 and
http://www.google.com/search?q=rot13.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all
may benefit.