> ... it {MS Word} DOES kern automatically somewhat.
"Moon" is not a revealing test for kerning. You want to
use letter pairs that could nest - have their character
cells overlap, but avoid glyphs touching.
"Yo" or "To" might be more revealing. If kerned, the
upper right arm of the "Y" or "T" will hang over part
of the "o".
I use Adobe FrameMaker, not Word, and can't run the tests.
Several DTP-expert contributors on the SBVFT site
dispute that kerning is present. It would not be wise
to hang much of the forgery charge on it until default
kerning in MS Word, and the presence of clear kerning
in the documents is definitely proved.
I don't know what the correct word is, but Microsoft Word adjusts the spacing differently between letters than IBM Executive typewriters, according to this guy. As I understand what he is saying, each letter has its own width, while on the IBM Executive there were only 4 or so widths for letters.
http://www.hughhewitt.com/#postid876
BTW, I tried "To" and "Yo," the upper arm of the T and Y do NOT hang over the o. It looks like it because the T is just a tad narrower than the Y.