space bar stops working in word x?

[Josh Fruhlinger]

Hello-

I'm doing some troubleshooting for a friend. She's using Office v.X
on an iMac running 10.2.7. Sorry I don't have more details ... she
reported this to me by phone and isn't very tech-savvy.

She was using Word when it crashed on her (not terribly unusual in
itself, I guess.) When she restarted Word and opened that document
again, the space bar would not create a space in the document. She
restarted her whole computer and went back to that same document --
still couldn't make spaces. Spaces don't work with new Word documents
either. The space bar in other applications seems
to work fine. Has anyone ever encountered any problems like this
before?

Thanks in advance
jf

 

[jls]

Yes, encountered something along those lines. Had two Times New Roman
fonts on my machine; when using one of these fonts in Word's "normal"
view, spaces following commas appeared to be missing; hitting the space
bar didn't seem to work either; switching to "page layout" revealed all
as it should be. My fix, among other things, was to delete and reinstall
my fonts.

Hoping your friend resolves her problem,
Jonathan

 

[Beth Rosengard]

I would also suggest repairing disk permissions: Go to Macintosh
HD/Applications/Utilities. Open up Disk Utility. Select
your hard disk, then click the First Aid tab. Click the button to "Repair
Disk Permissions".

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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