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There's a confusing bug in selecting words which makes it hard to text without copying the space after it. This one has been driving me nuts for a long time because it seemed unpredictable but I worked out the pattern today. Start Publisher and draw a text frame and type "One Two Three Four" Click before or after "Two". Using keyboard shortcuts, Shift select the word one character at a time. Choose Copy. This works, the space is not copied to the clipboard. The same is true if you forward or backward select the entire word instead of doing it character by character. Double click "Two" and choose Copy - now the clipboard will contain the following space which was not selected. This isn't correct but it's predictable so it's not too bothersome. Here's where it gets confusing. Repeat step 2. Now it will copy the following space no matter how you try to Shift select "Two". You can clear the problem by Shift selecting something else and copying it. You can also clear the problem by typing a character before or after the word. I don't know if this is specific to Mac.

Two bugs in Publisher 2, perhaps related. First bug: Selecting a word in a paragraph of text by double clicking on it copies an extra space after the word. If the word is selected by dragging over it, no extra space is copied. Second bug: Even if only the word with no extra space is copied to the clipboard, when I paste it into the Find And Replace panel an extra invisible character appears after the word. It looks like the end of story character. I've had a look in preferences and on my system (macos Monterey, see sig.) but can't see anything obvious that would cause this. Other apps such as Pages or BBEdit behave as expected, copying the word only. The test paragraph in the screenshot was created with a new blank document but the same behaviour happens with the example templates provided in Publisher. Can anyone reproduce this?

When working in tables, if you double-click and copy text that has a space at its front, when you paste that text over selected text, the space goes along for the ride, resulting in a double-space (see video). That's a minor annoyance, but it would be nice if it could be fixed. One way of fixing the problem would be to add a preference option to "Automatically Remove Multiple Spaces". Screen Recording 2021-10-13 at 1.32.13 PM.mov