Word 2000 document from Japan with strange vertical font size

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http://rapidshare.de/files/27673146/vertical_font_size.doc.html

A document we received that from a japanese client has strange vertical
spacing. I have replaced the data with dummy text but even restoring
paragraphs to normal does not change the space left.

The letters are normal sized, but there is enough space made for the
letters to be much larger. It is as if single spacing produces 1.5
spacing on screen and when printed.

I am curious about whether this can be turned on and off, and whether
it is possible for one paragraph in a document to have this spacing
while another does not.

To use rapidshare, click on the link, then click the button that says
"free". The file is a 21k Word file with no macros and four paragraphs
of =rand() but the spacing is strange as described above.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My advice would have been to check the Compatibility Options for anything
that looks Asian or just to reset the Compatibility to Word 2003 (or
whatever version you have). But I have looked at the document, and I confess
I'm stumped. Neither of these tricks made any difference. There is
absolutely nothing bizarre about the formatting (at least not as far as
Reveal Formatting shows). Courier New is being substituted for Courier, but
even if you Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+Spacebar to reset the paragraph and font format
(which turns into into TNR 12), the line spacing doesn't change. And
vertical alignment is set to Top, so that's not the issue, either.

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

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Thanks for looking. What we ended up doing is using exact paragraph
spacing. I can only guess that the problem is because the job was
worked on in a location that used a different alphabet (Japanese) than
the US. I'm just curious how to get it back and how it was done in the
first place.

 

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Does anyone else have any ideas?

My advice would have been to check the Compatibility Options for anything
that looks Asian or just to reset the Compatibility to Word 2003 (or
whatever version you have). But I have looked at the document, and I confess
I'm stumped. Neither of these tricks made any difference. There is
absolutely nothing bizarre about the formatting (at least not as far as
Reveal Formatting shows). Courier New is being substituted for Courier, but
even if you Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+Spacebar to reset the paragraph and font format
(which turns into into TNR 12), the line spacing doesn't change. And
vertical alignment is set to Top, so that's not the issue, either.

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

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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Does anyone else have any ideas?

Well, of course all kind of FarEast stuff is set for the
document, and the paragraphs in the document. I just
started going through the available lists for the document,
then the Paragraph object in VBA, turning things off.

The line spacing finally "collapsed" when I did this:

ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).DisableLineHeightGrid = true

But it's not said that this, alone, will do the job. It
could be that something else I turned off prior to that
point is required, as well. If you're curious and want to
play with it, I worked my way through the two lists
alphabetically.

If one has the FarEast support and IMEs installed,
some/much of this might be available in those user
interfaces that we don't see. I suggest, if you want to
pursue this, to post in the word.international.features
newsgroup.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Thanks.

Off to word.international.features I go.

I can also verify that changing
ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).DisableLineHeightGrid = false alone will
correct the issue.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

I can also verify that changing

ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).DisableLineHeightGrid = false alone will
correct the issue.

Thanks for that

Cindy Meister