Tools: Weird Word spacing problem solved

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

A while back, I reported a problem editing occasional documents created 
using the Japanese version of Word using Word X (under OS X) on my Mac: 
the onscreen display of the type didn't match the actual position of 
the cursor, and there were weird gaps occuring within and between 
words. Needless to say, this made editing using revision tracking a 
nightmare--finding the actual cursor position required typing something 
to see where the new text would actually appear.

Thanks to Marj Tiefert, I found the solution. The problem was that 
although I had installed the necessary Japanese fonts, I'd neglected to 
configure Word to use them properly. On the Mac, doing so is, shall we 
charitably say, "inobvious"--simple when you know what you're looking 
for, but you have to know what to look for. (Ain't that always the 
case!) Here's how:

- Close all open applications.
- Copy the Utilities folder from your Office installation disk into 
your Microsoft Office folder.
- Open the Utilities folder, then open the Microsoft Language Register 
folder.
- Open a new window and navigate to the folder containing the Word icon.
- Drag the Word icon from the new window onto the Microsoft Language 
Register icon.
 - A configuration utility launches: select Japanese language support. 
(The window then closes and provides no further feedback about what is 
happening. D'oh!)
- Launch Word. Under the Format menu, select Document. In that dialog 
box, you'll discover a whole new Tab called "Grid" that never existed 
before.
- Turn off the document grid and close the dialog box. (There are 
various other options you can play with, but this is the biggie.)

Voila! Problem solved. Now wasn't that obvious? Boy do I feel dim for 
not instantly seeing that this was the solution to my problems. <g>

In any event, this solution needs a bit of testing before I'll be 
confident using it, since a cursory inspection has already revealed 
some oddnesses that made me glad I'd created a new test account on 
which to test this process rather than using the account I use to earn 
a living--such as the fact that a few dialog box entries appear to be 
in Japanese, which I can't read. Oh well--at least I can now edit the 
problem documents!

--Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)


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