It seems random and yet specific to certain documents. I will note here that the curious thing is the issue with Word dropping spaces does not happen with every document I have. So it’s not as simple as looking at the extension on the file name. Workaround 2: Both Word 20 saves files as a. Note: to make this work I had to show all paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols before doing the replace all. And, there is no guarantee it won’t occasionally drop a double spaced double-space. You will have to do it every time you will be working on or sending to someone using a machine with the other Word version. This is clunky and impractical, but a workaround. After opening the document in the other Word program repeat the replace all changing all double spaces with single spaces. Workaround 1: Before saving that Word document you can do a “replace all” to replace all single spaces with double spaces. So, I’m going to look at what is behind door number 2. While I’m not a “starving artist”, I am an author and I am broke. You can uninstall Office and purchase a bare bones one device only Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only Office package with no service available for the one time purchase price of $169 CAD.Īlternatively, you can get more with a monthly subscription for $8 per month ($79/year) or even more for $11 per month ($109/year)
#Word document missing spaces between words Patch#
Since installing the patch is no longer possible, that leaves other workarounds involving either getting creative or spending money.ġ) The Money Fix: Throw money at your computer. The problem with this fix is that Microsoft is no longer supporting Word 2007, so the patch is no longer available. Now here is the bad news: I found the Office fix, installing the patch, but it won’t work. The good news is Microsoft developed a fix for it and it was likely fixed in a patch to Word 2007 years ago.
This is a huge formatting and editing headache when you are getting an entire novel ready for publication.Īfter some research I learned the issue is a known glitch in Word 2007 and specific to the conversion between 20 versions. I now find myself regularly coming up against this problem: When I open a Word document last saved in one version in the other, Word is losing spaces in the translation from one Word version to the other. Sometimes I’m on another machine running Word 2010. Sometimes these problems come up only when you have to reinstall them.ĭue to an unforeseen computer problem, I had to reinstall my Microsoft Office. If you are like me and running ancient software, you will occasionally run into issues caused by the age of your program. You are not trapped in The Twighlight Zone or in a Tales from the Dark Side.
No, you aren’t losing your mind, and yes, maybe Word is gaslighting you. You think, “What the Hell?! That wasn’t there before.” Then the horror deepens when you realize the document is littered with them. Have you opened that Microsoft Word document to start editing or writing to find to your horror that you are staring at those ugly glaring little red squiggles bringing to your attention two words strung together missing the space between?
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