Whycan'tIhave spaces between my words?

[Cymphia]

I have a half-finished beautiful PDF, but now everytime I type it won't let me put spaces between words. For example, I want to type "By So and So" it will start out "By " but when I go to add my S it deletes the space and makes it "ByS" instead of "By S".

If I try to add text in the middle of an existing sentence, it will even cause the next word to move backward. The more times I hit the space bar, the farther back my text will move. The text that I want to move forward will start to overlap the words before it. If I keep pressing space the following words will move backward beyond the limit of the text box and into the left margin of the page. I wish I could describe this better.

Edit: this problem might be specific to some text boxes, but not all. Why?

Why does technology hate me?

[Test Screen Name]

Acrobat is not a good editor and isn’t made for creating whole docs. Use Word or your favourite tool, save to PDF. Never edit the PDF, edit original every time. 

[barbara_a]

Did you by any chance hit your "Insert" key on the keypad of your keyboard? Try toggling the Insert key on and off to see if that is the problem.

[sarab57730398]

I had this same issue and I found a workaround by highlighting the text where I wanted a space and adjusting the character spacing using the option on the right side of the screen. It's not efficient, but it works in a pinch.