Spaces between words

[Lloyd]

I am running system 10.2.6 with version 10 of Word. The problem that
i am having is that the space between words doesn't always appear to
be a space, making the words look like they are running together. This
only happens on the word document, not in print preview and not when
i print the word out.
is anyone else having this problem?
is there a solution?



Lloyd

 

[Elliott Roper]

I am running system 10.2.6 with version 10 of Word. The problem that
i am having is that the space between words doesn't always appear to
be a space, making the words look like they are running together. This
only happens on the word document, not in print preview and not when
i print the word out.
is anyone else having this problem?
is there a solution?

yes
no.

Sometimes it is better in page layout. Sometimes it isn't. PoM
dependency [1]

Sometimes I despair at what passes for typography in Word. It seems
designed for ransom notes and down market used car ads.

WYSINWYG thankfully. As you say it prints better than it looks on
screen. I find myself rocking the insertion point with the arrow keys
and counting the clicks to see if a space is really there. Muppets!

I tried to find something about fractional widths in Word's help for
you, but the stupid help hid its close buttons off screen and stupid
Mac OS X does not have anywhere else to drag a window with and while it
was open I couldn't quit Word because the save file dialog was hiding
under the help pane and becasue I couldn't reach it the cmd-Q was
disabled. Force quitting Word from the finder was the only solution.

Ahh. Some days my fuse is shorter than others.

1. Phase of Moon

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

yes
no.

Sometimes it is better in page layout. Sometimes it isn't.

I find that changing the Zoom setting can affect this--viewing at 125% in
Word X I have had this problem. Finally I had to just change the default
font to something I was comfortable reading instead of Zooming to enlarge
the onscreen view.

Dayo

 

[Stan The Man]

I am running system 10.2.6 with version 10 of Word. The problem that
i am having is that the space between words doesn't always appear to
be a space, making the words look like they are running together. This
only happens on the word document, not in print preview and not when
i print the word out.
is anyone else having this problem?
is there a solution?

Same problem exists in Office 2001 and Os 9.1 so we shouldn't blame OsX
exclusively for this. I can always get the spaces to display correctly
if I increase the font size by a point or two, which isn't a lot of
help.

Stan