# Scrivener shows inconsistent character spacing after importing document from Word **URL:** \ **Category:** Scrivener for macOS\ **Tags:** support\ **Created:** [November 22, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-shows-inconsistent-character-spacing-after-importing-document-from-word/38401 "2017-11-22T20:11:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freewalker](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Freewalker](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Freewalker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-shows-inconsistent-character-spacing-after-importing-document-from-word/38401/1 "2017-11-22T20:11:35Z")
I’m getting different paragraph spacing for different paragraphs, despite having run Convert to Default Formatting. The paragraphs appear to have identical styles. How can I change this so the characters don’t run together? It looks like there’s too little spacing between characters, even though both are Palatino 12. (See attachments.) ![Screen Shot 2017-11-22 at 15.10.33.png](https://dev.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1d00270f0e4d3f35afa2067e179f4077aa5de70f.png) ![Screen Shot 2017-11-22 at 15.10.48.png](https://dev.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e0acef05bc0eeb258fa8824671a136c3ede005e3.png) ---
**Author:** ![ScriverTid](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@ScriverTid](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/ScriverTid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-shows-inconsistent-character-spacing-after-importing-document-from-word/38401/2 "2017-11-22T20:16:21Z")
That looks like a kerning issue - one is clearly kerned tighter than the other. Do/did you make such changes in Word?