If you don't see the word count in the status bar, right-click the status bar, then and click Word Count. Top of page Click File > Properties, and then click Statistics. I'm using Word for Mac 2011. When using the default font - Cambria - extra spaces appear when I type an apostrophe followed by another character. See the screenshot at: As you can see in the screenshot, the font for the apostrophe character (which includes a big space after it) isn't actually Cambria; instead, it's MS 明朝 (Body Asian) It seems that Cambria automatically uses this font for apostrophes, and that the apostrophe character for this font includes the extra space. How should I go about fixing this so that apostrophes appear correctly? I'm guessing it might be some kind of font conflict, but I'm not sure: and I don't know how to fix font conflicts, in any case. (Originally posted at ). Cambria is one of many font families installed by Microsoft during the Office 2001 installation. It sometimes installs them in ~/Library/Fonts folder, as well as in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. You may have other copies of this font elsewhere, too. Best games for a mac compter. One first step is to run Font Book to find duplicate copies of this, and other font families. Select the All Fonts category in the left-most pane, then execute the Edit menu > Look for enabled duplicates. You should also search for Cambria and then execute FIle menu > Validate Font and File. Report back with results and info on your Mac & OS version. – Jun 1 '13 at 15:21 •. It may not be a duplicated font problem, then, but it won't take but a minute to eyeball the other paths I mentioned to see if Cambria lurks somewhere. You also didn't mention that you'd checked Preferences > AutoCorrect to make sure the 'AutoCorrect', 'MathAutoCorrect', 'AutoFormat as You Type' and 'AutoText' tabs settings are 'normal'. In the AutoFormat AYT tab, have you unchecked 'Straight quotation marks with 'smart.' Lastly, try zapping the Office Font Cache which is here: ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences/Office 2011/ – Jun 2 '13 at 22:42 •. I've checked Preferences > AutoCorrect and everything seems 'normal', although I'm not quite sure what normal should look like! Unchecking 'Replace straight quotation marks' does fix the problem, but I'd like to have smartquotes working. There don't appear to be any Cambria variants in ~/Library/Fonts. I've deleted the cache (and 'Word Font Substitutes') but when I relaunch word the problem is still there, and the files have been recreated. Any other tips greatly appreciated! – Jun 4 '13 at 13:12 •. After updating OS X to 10.9 and opening Word for the first time since the update I encountered the same problem. I spent half a day testing all the suggestions put forward here and in other forums responding to the same query (including checking autoformat preferences/searching for font duplicates/verifying fonts/testing in new mac user account/repairing permissions etc.) with no luck. Finally, I deleted the Cambria font from the Font Book and reinstalled again. I reopened Word and tested and the problem seems to have disappeared. I'm using OS X 10.9 and Word for Mac 2011, v14.3.8. Is your OSX Language & Text setting set to something other than English? (I'm guessing that it IS set to English, based on your screenshot.) It's possible that Word's default language is not set to English (US) (or your English-speaking country of choice). Ensure that it is set to the correct language by opening any document in Word, then go to Tools/Language, select English (US) (or whichever English variant is appropriate), then click the 'Default' button and verify the change to the Normal.dot template. Then, create a new document and type text that includes an apostrophe, and report back on the result. Two options for the unsophisticated that worked for me: • Under Word > Preferences > AutoCorrect > Replace as You Type unselect 'Straight question marks' with 'smart quotation marks'. Unfortunately, this leaves you with straight quotation marks and apostrophes. • Use Calibri as your font while writing, then convert everything to your font of choice when you are done. Unfortunately, this can be a pain where you are trying editing a document or finalizing the spacing. I did not have any luck with adding all the word fonts to font book or with changing the proofing language.
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