| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | cell spacing | 单元格间距 (The distance between the cells of a table or workbook) |
| comp., MS | character spacing | 字符间距 (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| comp., MS | line spacing | 行距 (The amount of space from the bottom of one line of text to the bottom of the next line) |
| comp., MS | non-spacing character | 不占位字符 (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | spacing character | 间隔字符 (A character with a non-zero width) |