This has been happening for years. Often, when I cut and paste text from one document to another the character spacing changes from "normal" to "expanded." I have to manually change it back with the drop-down format tab. Since I never use expanded character spacing, I can't figure out why it's doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
2007-09-16 16:35:36 · 3 answers · asked by Andrei Bolkonsky 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Does it still occur when you use the "paste special" command?
To access this -- copy to the clipboard as usual, but go up to the menu, choose EDIT> Paste Special > unformatted text
It will not retain the particular character formatting that was native to where ever you copied it from... seems to me that this used to happen to me with Office 2000 but does not seem to occur with office XP or any of the later versions... can't remember. Cheers
2007-09-16 16:44:59 · answer #1 · answered by Mail Orderz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you paste into another document, the pasted text assumes the formatting of the existing text.
I'm assuming you are using the same font in both documents?
Are both documents on align-left?
If the document is "justified" - the text will reformat to fit within the margin and appear expanded.
I like the looks of left-aligned and use it in all documents.
2007-09-16 17:01:33 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This document claims to fix the problem, but I'm not sure.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:_6N_xWkNQbAJ:office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA011875991033.aspx+expanded+character+spacing+word&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
2007-09-16 16:45:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋