David wonders if there's a way of obtaining a half-space in front of semi colons, colons, question marks, and exclamation marks to enhance readability in computer fonts that appear in his documents. He finds that the punctuation appears overly close to the characters that precede those marks.
There's no way to do this mechanically; Word is not (and was never intended to be) a desktop publishing program. That being said, there are a number of ways you can add the desired spacing. One easy way is to simply fit a regular space in front of the punctuation after which adjust the size of the space. For instance, if your ordinary typeface is 12-poi
