Different text alignment using same font on different sytems

[kenkahn]

I have a Word document created using MS Office 2003 on an XP system.
This document has some text formatted using the font HE_TERMINAL that
looks like this

CABLE_xx <connector_loc>
<connector_loc>
ACTIVE_DATA_CABLE_xx <connector_loc> <buffer_loc>

The columns are properly lined up. If I open this document on a
different XP system running the same version of MS Office 2003, the
text now looks like

CABLE_xx <connector_loc> <connector_loc>
ACTIVE_DATA_CABLE_xx <connector_loc> <buffer_loc>

Why am I getting this discrepancy? Is there some style setting that
might be causing this? This happens even if I access the original
file directly using an NFS drive.

 

[Jezebel]

Use tabs instead of spaces for aligning your text.

 

[kenkahn]

Use tabs instead of spaces for aligning your text.

I shouldn't have to. That doesn't explain why the text comes out
different using the same font on both systems.

 

[kenkahn]

I shouldn't have to. That doesn't explain why the text comes out
different using the same font on both systems.

I actually did try using tabs in the original document and it still
showed up misaligned on the other system. I verified that the tabs
stops were the same on both systems.

 

[kenkahn]

Interestingly, I opened the file using OpenOffice and it works fine;
i.e. everything is aligned correctly as it was in the original word
document. So it has to be Word doing something 'funny'.

 

[Jezebel]

No, it's definitely an operator error.