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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: Wider spaces in MS Word
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Date: 8 Nov 90 02:46:02 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.183139.23300@hellgate.utah.edu> u-lchoqu%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette) writes:
>How do you tell Word to widen the spaces between words, without typing
>in extra spaces?  I've tried choosing Expanded in the Character
>Formats dialog, but that also puts extra space between each letter.
>
>I'm printing envelopes that should be machine scannable, and Helvetica
>has such narrow spaces that I've been told I should have two spaces
>between each word.  I wondered if there's a more elegant solution than
>typing two spaces between each word in my address tables.

Ok, what you want to do is look for a feature in Word called "kerning."
Kerning is a desktop publishing term for exactly what you want to do --
adding or removing extra space between two characters.

If MS Word doesn't have Kerning, then I suggest you use a Desktop Publishing
program, such as PageMaker.
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