space between letters in MS WORD ?

[zavsays]

Hi all,
I received a document via email (I'm on a MAC -version 6). The problem is, EACH LETTER in the document has an extra space between them! I managed to make the problem seem to go away by choosing another font in Microsoft Word but when I cut-and-pasted the document into another program, the space between each letter reappeared.
I'm trying to get this text into a web editor (Dreamweaver) and I don't want to have to remove each space manually.
Does anyone know what might be happenning?

Thanks

 

[xlhelp]

Have you highlighted some of the text and then gone to Format, Font, Character Spacing to see if that's off?

If it is you can modify under Style.

Indu

 

[wwgmr]

The only other way I know of to remove the double spaces is to use find and replace command. In the find feild put two spaces then in replace put in only one. I have used this on Word 2000 (PC) and worked fine. I think should work for you. Just need to click find first to make sure it is finding the double spaces and then click replace all. It will do it all in one click for you. You may want to show code first to copy past the double space to the find field, but I don't believe that will be needed.

Good luck.

Eric

 

[zavsays]

I don't think the find and replace worked for me because I needed to replace one space with none. And the formatting appeared O.K. but those were great suggestions.
I ultimately solved the problem by importing MS Word into a Dreamweaver document, then cutting and pasting THAT into Quark, then cutting and pasting THAT back into Dreamweaver.

Go figure.
Thanks guys!

 

[wwgmr]

I am glad you found it worked. I just wanted to let you know that the find replace would work as well. If you open a word doc and then show all button that will show all formating and other code that is hidden. Then copy a 1 dot (this is used to show space) then replace with nothing. Click find next or replace you will see this work good. Its a very handy feature in Word. Try some test with it. Sometimes even better if you want double spaces or other.

Just glad you found fix.

 

[Rythemton]

With the replace a single space with nothing, you have to aprove every one just to make sure you are removing legitamate spaces.

A faster way, if there are two spaces where there should be just one:

Replace all double spaces with ******
Replace all single spaces with nothing
Replace all ****** with a single space

Now you don't have to aprove every replacement.

Steve