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In article <SCHOETT.91May17200416@star.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> 
schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett) writes:
> Letterspacing means to put extra space between the letters of words
> when a line is justified.  I find that typographically unacceptable,
> b e c a u s e   t h e   w o r d s   t e n d   t o   s t i c k   o u t
> and would like to switch it off in MS Word 4.0.  How?

The problem can be solved (or at least reduced ?) by the famous 
"Fractional Widths" switch in the Page Layout.

Other answers to this question mention the character expansion entry in 
the character format. This option applies to all selected characters or to a full paragraph.

The above problem is that a single line in a paragraph (always or 
sometimes or by chance?) automatically introduces character expansion if 
the interword spacing becomes too big.

The problem may occur more frequently in foreign languages where the 
Word hyphenation doesn't work too well. For example, words with a German 
Umlaut seem to be a problem for the German version of Word. Therefore, 
there are many words in German where Word doesn't find a single 
hyphenation. Word  doesn't offer such words to the user when doing 
interactive hyphenation.  This is a very big bug in my opinion. So there 
are often situations with lot of white space in a single line which lead 
to the problem with automatic letterspacing.

Regards  Klaus Kansy,      kansy@gmdzi.gmd.de
German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
St. Augustin, Germany