iintermittant bad font spacing?

[Guest]

When I print out Word docs, sometimes the spacing comes out oddly. It maybe
fine one time it is printed then bad the next or bad three times later. For
example, a comma may print on top of the previous letter so you cannot see it
at all--yet it is there on the screen. As a stop gap measure, I expand a
portion of the sentence to compensate and usually that works temporarily, but
then something happens somewhere else.
(Not sure if its relevant, but I share docs with a gal who works in a
Turkish and Spanish and French environment. I write, she edits and returns
things to me.)
Lately I have been sspending a lot of time pasting "old docs" into "fresh"
docs as this seem to fix things temporarily...HELP!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Possibly the language at the insertion point is Turkish, Spanish, or French
instead of English? Or you have an international keyboard enabled? These
might result in a comma or apostrophe, for example, being interpreted as a
deadkey or setup key for an accented character.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I do not have an international keyboard enabled, although I switch between
Spanish and English lanugages in documents. My colleague in Turkey uses
French, Spanish and English on her laptop and she works in a Turikish
internet cafes that probably has a Turkish language enabled keyboard.

This intermittant spacing problem does not only occur by commas, it occurs
when changing fonts from a word that is "normal" to a word that is "bold".
Sometimes a letter or part of letter extends into the right margin even
though the text is set to be fully justified! Sometimes spaces between words
practically disappear.

I have tried to use styles to fix this. I have pasted entire documents into
a "fresh" document thnking that perhaps the old docuemtn I used as a bas came
from WordPerfect or an earilier version of Word ('95, 2000, etc.). I have
highlighted setions or the entire document and chosen English as the language.

I make frequent PDFs to send to clients to proof and have begun to wonder if
making multiple PDFs could be the cause.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I would be more inclined to think the problem is with a damaged font or
printer driver.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Any suggestions on how to diagnose or repair a damaged font or print driver?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Reinstall it.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Reinstall the print driver or reinstall the font or both?
If there not a way to diagnose which is the problem? A test to do? [I have
noticed that some of the odd spacing problems have occured when printing at a
copy center(my file on their computer)--not just at home.]
Could it be a corrupt "norma" template?

If the only way or best way to deal with this spcaing problem is to
reinstall something...where would I find out how to do that?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the problem occurs using a different printer driver (and hence different
font files as well), then it is NOT the font or printer driver. It *could*
be a corrupt Normal.dot. You can troubleshoot that by renaming Normal.dot or
starting Word in Safe Mode and seeing whether the problem recurs.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Reinstall the print driver or reinstall the font or both?
If there not a way to diagnose which is the problem? A test to do? [I have
noticed that some of the odd spacing problems have occured when printing at a
copy center(my file on their computer)--not just at home.]
Could it be a corrupt "norma" template?

If the only way or best way to deal with this spcaing problem is to
reinstall something...where would I find out how to do that?

Reinstall it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

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