Character Spacing of English text w/Japanese Support Enabled

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Douglas Sutherland - 18 Sep 2003 20:57 GMT

I am trying to edit a Word document which was originally
created in Japan using Word with Japanese support. We
have translated and removed all Japanese characters and I
am now adding new English text. I am having a problem
with the character spacing in this file. No matter what
I do, the spacing of text looks like it is 1.5 line
spacing. I have tried changing the font. I have checked
the settings for line spacing in the format/paragraph
dialog and it is set to single space. It appears that
something related to the Japanese language support is
adding space above and below each character. I have
tried to remvove Japanese language support by setting the
language to US English, but this has no effect.

Has anyone else seen this and what can I do to correct
this problem?

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Klaus Linke - 18 Sep 2003 22:50 GMT

Hi Douglas,

From your description, it seems you are talking about line spacing rather
than character spacing?

It's probably "No grid" on the "Document grid" tab of the Page Setup dialog.
You'll only see this tab if some support for Asian languages is installed.

Maybe it's simpler to fix with VBA:

ActiveDocument.PageSetup.LayoutMode = wdLayoutModeDefault

(Open the VBA editor -- Alt+F11 --, go to the immediate window
-- Ctrl+G --, paste or type the line, and hit the Return key)

A previous thread on the problem:
http://www.google.com/groups?threadm=ONU0dJH8AHA.2052%40tkmsftngp03

Regards,
Klaus

> I am trying to edit a Word document which was originally
> created in Japan using Word with Japanese support. We
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> Has anyone else seen this and what can I do to correct
> this problem?

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Opinicus - 19 Sep 2003 08:42 GMT

Douglas Sutherland <dsutherland@necinfrontia.com> said:

> I am trying to edit a Word document which was originally
> created in Japan using Word with Japanese support. We
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> tried to remvove Japanese language support by setting the
> language to US English, but this has no effect.

If the document doesn't have a lot of formatting (italics, bold, underline,
etc) information in it that you want to preserve, the simplest thing to do
is to save the document as a text file. Create a new document from a US
English template and then copy the text file into that.

Language-related information seems to be buried deeply in Word documents and
can be very hard to root out.

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