Mysterious non-breaking spaces after glossary terms

Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Mysterious non-breaking spaces after glossary terms
Poster: Samuel Murray

G'day everyone

For a while now I've noticed that whenever I insert a glossary term in WFC, there is a space after the term, but because I usually work with non-printing characters unviewed, I thought that it was simply a problem with MS Word's "smart editing" and then I deleted the space if I needed to.

However, today I noticed that the space after glossary entries is actually a non-breaking space... and that space is also present in the little glossary dropdown menu that comes up when multiple entries are found in the glossary. I have checked my glossaries and the spaces are not there. I have reorganised them etc, but WFC still inserts the non-breaking spaces.

I haven't upgraded WFC recently, but of course no-one knows whether MS Word (I use 2003) might have been updated by Microsoft.

The non-breaking space is shown in the dropdown menu regardless of whether the glossary entry has a comment, but if it does have a comment, the non-breaking space is not inserted into the document.

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In the above example, both "verslag" and "aangee" has the non-breaking space after it, in the dropdown menu, and when I select "verslag", the non-breaking space will also be inserted into the document, but when I select "aangee", the non-breaking space will not be inserted into the document along with the term.

Does anyone know a fix for this problem (except to add dummy comments to all glossary entries)?

Samuel