Bug in Word - deletes spaces when opened on Windows

[davidskp]

Im currently working on my bachelor project. It is a group project and I am the only one using a mac. When I write a chapter in Word 2008 and send the docx file to one of the others, who open it in Word 2007 on Windows, there are several spaces missing throughout the document e.g. "and thereby" becomes "andthereby" and so on. This is really frustrating as the spell checker for some reason misses a lot of them, meaning we have to go through every chapter manually re-adding spaces.

Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

/dave