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Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word

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'that's what books use'

Because books never used monospaced fonts like typewriters did. Another habit born out of necessity because limitations of the era, which no longer makes sense today, and even yesterday.

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