Office 2013


I started to get complaints from people that the Word files I send them are missing spaces between the words. These people are running older versions of Office, like 2007, for instance. They had no problem until recently with the .docx files I send them, but something has changed.

I could save files in .doc format, of course, but is there any real solution to the problem?

You have already found the workaround: use the *.doc format instead.

For more on the underlying issue, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...9-9e37bddf82d8 (DOCX Incompatible Between Word 2010 and Word 2007 - randomly drops spaces from between words).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

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