Automatically adjust character spacing for East Asian text and punctuation

The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only available if support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

1. Select the text you want to change.
2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Asian Typography tab.
3. Under Character spacing, do one of the following:
   • To restore normal spacing between characters and punctuation, click Do not compress.
   • To compress only punctuation within text, click Compress only punctuation.
   • To compress both characters and punctuation in Japanese text, click Compress punctuation and Japanese kana (only available for Japanese).
4. Click OK.