Automatically adjust character spacing for East Asian text

The feature described in this Help topic is only available if support for the appropriate East Asian language is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

You may want to adjust the character spacing automatically:

For example, when you enter East Asian characters after Latin alphabet characters or after half-width numerals, the may appear too close to each other and be hard to read. Also, parenthesis and quotation marks at the beginning of in a lines may appear indented. Publisher allows you to adjust the character spacing automatically in such cases.

Adjust spacing between East Asian characters

  1. On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
  2. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Asian Typography tab.
  3. Under AutoSpacing, select the options you want to use.

Adjust spacing between East Asian and Latin alphanumeric characters or numerals

  1. On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
  2. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Asian Typography tab.
  3. Under AutoSpacing, select the options you want to use.

Adjust spacing of symbols at the beginning of a line

  1. On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
  2. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the FE Typographic Options tab.
  3. Under AutoSpacing, select the Allow punctuation at start of line to compress check box.