Little utility
I'd also recommend a font viewer utility, something like MooO Font viewer, that allows you to type in a phrase and see that phrase set in every font you have on your PC; sometimes just a small font change can get you the spacing you want, especially with typefaces with many standard variations, like Arial, Tacoma, Times, etc. Also if a font adjustment works, it may simplify editing, as Word is notorious for copying more than just characters and pasting more than just the words. This is easily seen in emails sent from Outlook, where editing is a nightmare; I often Ctrl+A from the document and Ctrl+V into notebook and save as txt, just to resolve mixed formatting problems, before editing them back into the document.
