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Spacing of words on a Word Document.

Rev. Black authored the book titled Living Messages From The Canaan Journey.

WORD seems to imply that From The are spelled wrong. No they are not. What is looks like to the naked eye is that there is too much space between the words. However if I go back a space with the F there is no space between the "s" in Messages and the F in From. Same thing for The.
WORD has too much space between those words and I've noticed this many many times. Why does it do that?
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Native Word (anything from V2003 forward) assumes that more than one space between words is a spelling error. It has always done that. I think there might be a setting (I would have to look) but Native Word works as I suggest above. I have learned of the years to adapt to Word as the results look very good.
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There are not more than one space between the words. The spaces look larger than others through out the 50 word paragraph.

From The

If I move the T back one space it is beside the "m."

There is only one space between those two words and easy to see the space is too wide.
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It seem that the 'F' and 'T' is capitalized from the word "From The". And further to that the whole Sentence seem reverse after you change to lower case.

AS for the item posted, you should place the sentence as
Black authored the book titled "Living Messages From The Canaan Journey".

This will help
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I'll post the actual document later tonight.
Also please respond to earlier comment.   The Word will throw up spelling errors in Native Word because of two capitals. Normal. Is that what you see?
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The words are the title of a book and all letters are capital.

Living Messages From The Canaan Journey

I know and realize that in many cases the The would be the.

Similar to
"The History Of India" the O may need to be o. (?)
"Charles Town A History"  the A may need to be a (?)

I can try tonight and post an image.
I think it is the capital letter on one word or another.
Word may still pick it up as an error unless the spelling tests have been changed. Again. Normal Word behaviour.
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Lim HC:
Here is yours and ours and as you can see in the image yours is longer because two " have been added. It did not affect the title of the book and the indicated spelling error and size of spaces.

Black authored the book titled "Living Messages From The Canaan Journey".

Black authored the book titled Living Messages From The Canaan Journey.

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Paul,
I tried left and justified. The spacing between the words "Black and authored" did not stretch like the others.
i don't know, i'm not an English teacher, but you might want to have a look at this: Rules for Capitalization in Titles

in French, only the first word of a title is capitalized!
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Changing the F in from to a lower case or the T in The to a lower cases allows WORD to think it is correct and everything is spelled correctly.
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As far as title of a book in this title which words should be capital?

American Hero: John Kennedy.

I think are 4 words are to capitalized since they are names of something.
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Using quotation marks around the title had no effect.
Your question was "Spacing"  which was covered by people here.
The first line was "Spelling" and all that you pointed to was Normal Native Word.

So I think we gave you all you needed.  Cheers.
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The space between some words in the title of the book were too wide.
They spacing was resolved it seems by changing one letter to lower case.
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Well let's try this title:

The Life and Accomplishments of Paul Sauve.

I do not think your name should be lower case.

"of" and "and" yes I see that those should be lower case.
how about this:

You Win a Kewpie Doll!