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To: Bigg Red

The double space was common practice with fixed fonts, as in typewritten. Proportional fonts insert a space-and-a-half automatically. That is why Word flags the double space as an error.


199 posted on 02/01/2012 6:15:09 PM PST by j_tull ("I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.")
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To: j_tull

The double space was common practice with fixed fonts, as in typewritten. Proportional fonts insert a space-and-a-half automatically. That is why Word flags the double space as an error.

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Thank you for that information. FReepers are so smart.

I’ll keep working on breaking my old habit with the spaces.


207 posted on 02/02/2012 12:52:47 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: j_tull

The double space was common practice with fixed fonts, as in typewritten. Proportional fonts insert a space-and-a-half automatically. That is why Word flags the double space as an error.

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Thank you for that information. FReepers are so smart.

I’ll keep working on breaking my old habit with the spaces.


208 posted on 02/02/2012 12:52:55 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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