>>>I use Outlook and I don't see what you're seeing. There is no "extra" space inserted before the ":" unless I put it there. Maybe there is a setting, but if so, it's the same as my Word setting.
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>>Ok, I'll keep looking for that one.
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>I see the same as Fred, although I was able to set up a "rule" to change that whenever I press the ":", word replaces it with ": ", may be you had this set up with Outlook? (I do not use Word as my Outlook editor)
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>I set up the rule this way:
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>Word -> Tools -> AutoCorrect options -> AutoCorrect Tab (default tab?)
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>Replace ":" with ": "
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>(no quotes)

That could be it, I don't have any personal AutoCorrect options other than the default ones.