This sounds to me as if the language formatting may be set to something other than English. French, perhaps? Some languages require spaces before or after punctuation, so Word does this for the user. Which can be annoying if you aren't actually typing in
that language.
At the bottom of the Word status bar you may see a little box with the language. If you don't right-click the status bar (that's the bar across the bottom of the Word windows, in case you're not familiar with the term) and choose "Language" from the context
menu. This will tell you the language formatting of the selected text.
If the text in the document is not an English "dialect", and you want the entire document to be in English, press Ctrl+A to select the document. Click on this "Language" button in the status bar, then select the language you want to use from the
dialog box that pops up.
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP
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