Hi Paul, Sorry for not being clear. I was agreeing with you. Using manual formatting doesn't make sense.

I'm formatting a document for a client, and there is a formal document-review process that is unfortunately based on required guidelines that seem about 20 years out of date.

They seem to want me to enter two "spaces" manually, and doing that would result in your measurement of 0.042" X 2 = 0.084". But I had something close to that in my first submission to them, and they seem to want me to widen the measurement, which suggests to me that they are actually defining a "space" as the average width of a letter. The problem of course is that a spacebar keystroke, at least with the font settings defined above, is not the same as the width of an average letter.

Also I apologize about the cross-post. I meant to put the link up and forgot to do so. There is more discussion there. Ultimately I did not go with the response on either forum, not because I think they're wrong, but I think I've come closer to what my document reviewers actually want, which conflicts with the language and examples they provide in their guide.

Thank you again for your help. The feedback was informative and will be useful in the future for me and I'm sure others who have similar questions. Thanks again and have a great weekend!