Stop checking whether blank characters are used for formatting

This policy setting prevents the Accessibility Checker from checking to ensure that multiple consecutive whitespace characters have not been used for formatting.

If you enable this policy setting, the Accessibility Checker will be prevented from checking to ensure that multiple consecutive whitespace characters have not been used for formatting.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, documents will be checked for consecutive whitespace usage and any issues will appear in the Accessibility Checker.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\accchecker
Value Nameblankcharacters
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value0
Disabled Value1

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