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Lifer
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I never said it was logical.
It's not correct to use contractions in formal writing. That doesn't change just because it's sometimes allowable and Word doesn't have a problem with it.
FYI: Word has font selections. Some of those fonts are mono-spaced like old typewriters where it is correct to use two spaces ("sometimes allowable"). Understand your word processor's logic and apply your own: extra work for no reason where it doesn't belong is not "correct" just because it was allowed. It wasn't correct before mono-spaced fonts and it's now that you aren't forced to use a mono-spaced font, well, nothing has changed. The only reason style guidelines enforce the practice is because they have applied to physically typed documents as long as they have to electronically typed documents.
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