Article ID: 927078
Article Last Modified on 10/15/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word 2007
SYMPTOMS
When you use an East Asian ClearType font in Microsoft Office Word 2007, you cannot use the internal leading that is provided by the font. The text that is formatted to use the East Asian ClearType font has too much space between the lines of text.
Note The following East Asian fonts experience this problem:
- Microsoft Meiryo (Japanese)
- Microsoft JhengHei (Traditional Chinese)
- Microsoft YaHei (Simplified Chinese)
CAUSE
This problem occurs because the East Asian version of Word 2007 uses an East Asian-specific document grid feature to set the number of lines per page and to calculate the document page layout.
The document grid feature assumes that East Asian fonts have an InternalLeading value of zero. Most East Asian fonts in earlier versions of Word have an InternalLeading value of zero.
The Meiryo, JhengHei, and YaHei fonts are East Asian ClearType fonts. However, these fonts have an InternalLeading value that is not zero. Therefore, the East Asian ClearType font has too much space between lines of text in Word 2007.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem in Word 2007 documents that contain only Meiryo, JhengHei, or YaHei fonts, follow these steps:
- Press CTRL+A to select the whole document.
- On the Home tab, click the Paragraph Dialog Box Launcher.
- In the Indentation area of the Paragraph dialog box, click to clear the Snap to grid when document grid is defined check box.
- In the Line spacing list, click Multiple, type 0.87 in the At box, and then click OK.
- Click the Page Layout tab, and then click Page Setup.
- In the Page Setup dialog box, click No grid on the Document Grid tab, and then click OK.
To work around this problem in Microsoft Word 2002 and Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents that contain only Meiryo, JhengHei or YaHei fonts, follow these steps:
- Press CTRL+A to select the whole document.
- On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
- In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Indents and Spacing tab, and then click to clear the Snap to grid when document grid is defined check box.
- In the Line spacing list, click Multiple, type 0.87 in the At box, and then click OK.
- On the File menu, click Page Setup. In the Page Setup dialog box, click No grid on the Document Grid tab.
- Click OK.
MORE INFORMATION
The Meiryo font is installed when you install the Japanese version of Windows Vista.
The JhengHei font is installed when you install the 2007 Office programs or the Traditional Chinese version of Windows Vista.
The YaHei font is installed when you install the 2007 Microsoft Office programs or the Simplified Chinese version of Windows Vista. For more information about internal leading and about font size calculation, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
74299 Calculating the logical height and point size of a font
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