I recently replaced my ancient PC with a laptop running Windows 7 and Microsoft Office. When typing a document in Word I'm finding that when I use the space bar there is very little space between words and I sometimes find it difficult to read what I've written.
Hitting the space bar twice creates too large a space. Is there any way of
making an adjustment?
Steve Milligan, by email
If the problem is simply readability on screen try increasing the Zoom setting on the View menu. You can’t manually change word spacing in MS Word; this is determined by the design of the font and whether or not the line or paragraph is justified.
You can, however, adjust character spacing, which also changes the distance between words. To do that open the Font Dialogue box, by pressing Ctrl + D (all versions of Word) then select the Character Spacing tab. There are three presets (normal, extended and condensed) and a manual adjustment, in the ‘By’ arrow box. This increases or decreases spacing in increments of 0.1pt. Click the Default button to save your chosen setting.
