Does MS Word do automatic kerning? I've never noticed. I know you can control character spacing by clicking on the "Character Spacing" tab from the font dialog, but I didn't think it was automatic
I know in the old days you had to use Pagemaker or something like that to be able to kern.
Finally, are we sure that the forged docs are kerned? If so, how does default word settings duplicate them exactly.
In Word 2000 you have to manually select kerning, and also have a choice to do it with "xx point and above", such as 12 or 14, etc.
Copied from the Help file:
"Change the spacing between characters
Select the text you want to change.
On the Format menu, click Font, and then click the Character Spacing tab.
Do one of the following:
To expand or condense space evenly between all the selected characters, click Expanded or Condensed in the Spacing box, and then specify how much space you want in the By box.
To kern characters that are above a particular point size, select the Kerning for fonts check box, and then enter the point size in the Points and above box.
Note Selecting Expanded or Condensed alters the spacing between all selected letters by the same amount. Kerning alters the spacing between particular pairs of letters."