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Apparently, MS Word changes character spacing for individual words at its will. I would like to ask:

  1. Why does this happen?
  2. Is there any benefits in this?
  3. In my opinion, it has no benefits. It even harms the document by cluttering some words as far as I observed. So how can I force the Word to keep a constant character spacing?
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  • Would you post a screenshot of unevenly spaced text?
    – Steven
    Aug 12, 2015 at 15:29

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Usually this happens when you use the "justified" attribute on a paragraph. Change it to right, left or center alignment and it should fix this.

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You can adjust character spacing in the Advanced tab of the Font dialog. Highlight some text, right click on the selection, and click Font.

For a description (and screenshots) of the various spacing options, read the Microsoft Word: Font - Advanced page help article.

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  • Link doesn't work for me.
    – Utku
    Aug 12, 2015 at 14:47
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    @Utku The link works perfectly for me.
    – i_am_root
    Aug 12, 2015 at 14:54
  • An illustration why the essential information should be included in the answer. :-) Microsoft has had some recent problems with its web sites (user accounts get corrupted and then no MS web sites are accessible). So MS links can be a problem even when the site seems to be working for many people.
    – fixer1234
    Aug 13, 2015 at 0:22

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