My best guess is that it is a font issue. If you had been using the styles, you could open the styles definition and make the same change there, without having to select all the text. In that case, you'll have to select all paragraphs with wide-spaced type, then choose Format>Font>Advanced and set the Spacing: dropdown to Normal. The pdf2doc website works fairly well -but does sometimes do the same thing with spacing. In the screenshot, your cursor is in the last paragraph, your font is set to Cambria 12pt Regular, but the style is set to Heading 2, so it appears you are doing all formatting as local formatting. If you have any suggestions as a workaround to what we are doing please let us know. However, we have experienced the same problem, in general, going from a Word doc that had been converted from a PDF, but came out clean-and then when we bring it into InDesign we have the no space issue in places. Its true that the file that we sent as an experiment had some issue going from the PDF to the Word doc. So what we have been experimenting with is going from Pdf to Word and then bringing in the formatted text into Indesign. If try opening the pdfs in Illy and then bring into Indesign, as live type, all of the formatting goes away. We need to edit the text on these files and recreate as a real InDesign file with live editable text. What is happening is that we are receiving client files that have pdfs placed in the InDesign document as text. I work w/Kofi -the person who posted this question.
