12pt Times New Roman Jumble Jumble
June 21, 2007 1:13 PM Subscribe
Microsoft Word Filter: Why does anything typed in 12pt Times New Roman decide to pile up on top of itself? Character spacing issues?
I am trying to fix my coworker's MS Word 2003 problem that started today after she opened an emailed word document from another employee. This problem is limited to 12pt Times New Roman font that is aligned left or right. Every letter that is typed is just piled upon the previous one, so that instead of a line, there is just a jumble the size of one letter. I suppose it's a character spacing issue, but the character spacing settings are set to "normal." Expanding the spacing provides sort of an ugly fix, but why is the normal setting doing this? When the text alignment is set to centered or justified, there are no issues. Everything is normal when the text is bold or italicized, even 11pt or 13pt. It's just the 12pt Times New Roman aligned left or right that jumbles up upon itself. Also, it appears as it should in web view, but not in normal view or print layout view.
I'm usually pretty good at figuring out these kinds of things, but this one's got me stumped. What's going on and how do I fix this?
I am trying to fix my coworker's MS Word 2003 problem that started today after she opened an emailed word document from another employee. This problem is limited to 12pt Times New Roman font that is aligned left or right. Every letter that is typed is just piled upon the previous one, so that instead of a line, there is just a jumble the size of one letter. I suppose it's a character spacing issue, but the character spacing settings are set to "normal." Expanding the spacing provides sort of an ugly fix, but why is the normal setting doing this? When the text alignment is set to centered or justified, there are no issues. Everything is normal when the text is bold or italicized, even 11pt or 13pt. It's just the 12pt Times New Roman aligned left or right that jumbles up upon itself. Also, it appears as it should in web view, but not in normal view or print layout view.
I'm usually pretty good at figuring out these kinds of things, but this one's got me stumped. What's going on and how do I fix this?
Response by poster: Found it. The normal.dot file was corrupt, deleting it forced Word to regenerate it and restore the default. Works fine now.
posted by buriednexttoyou at 2:01 PM on June 21, 2007
posted by buriednexttoyou at 2:01 PM on June 21, 2007
Best answer: If they have no custom styles or macros that they care to save, you can close Word and delete their normal.dot. Upon reopening, Word will create a new version with factory settings.
posted by deadfather at 2:01 PM on June 21, 2007
posted by deadfather at 2:01 PM on June 21, 2007
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posted by buriednexttoyou at 1:28 PM on June 21, 2007