Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unido!gmdzi!gmdzi.gmd.de!kansy From: kansy@gmdzi.gmd.de (Klaus Kansy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: How to switch off letterspacing? Message-ID: <4743@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 21 May 91 10:11:20 GMT References: Sender: news@gmdzi.gmd.de Organization: GMD Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: 129.26.128.191 In article schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett) writes: > Letterspacing means to put extra space between the letters of words > when a line is justified. I find that typographically unacceptable, > b e c a u s e t h e w o r d s t e n d t o s t i c k o u t > and would like to switch it off in MS Word 4.0. How? The problem can be solved (or at least reduced ?) by the famous "Fractional Widths" switch in the Page Layout. Other answers to this question mention the character expansion entry in the character format. This option applies to all selected characters or to a full paragraph. The above problem is that a single line in a paragraph (always or sometimes or by chance?) automatically introduces character expansion if the interword spacing becomes too big. The problem may occur more frequently in foreign languages where the Word hyphenation doesn't work too well. For example, words with a German Umlaut seem to be a problem for the German version of Word. Therefore, there are many words in German where Word doesn't find a single hyphenation. Word doesn't offer such words to the user when doing interactive hyphenation. This is a very big bug in my opinion. So there are often situations with lot of white space in a single line which lead to the problem with automatic letterspacing. Regards Klaus Kansy, kansy@gmdzi.gmd.de German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) St. Augustin, Germany