Editing MS Word Accessibility Best Practices (section)

== Avoid empty paragraph tags and blank characters ==

* It&rsquo;s common for the PDF document to contain empty Paragraph tags.
* This isn't strictly an issue for compliance, but it does make it more difficult to access the document for compliance because it's necessary to sift through all of the empty tags to find the tags that actually contain content.
This is a result of hitting the Enter key to create space between paragraphs. 
* A cleaner approach would be select a paragraph and edit its layout properties and give it the necessary extra margin above or below to create the gap between it and adjacent content. This will result in only a single Paragraph tag being exported.

=== `Repeated Blank Characters` warning ===

This is caused by two or more adjacent space characters. 

Solution: remove the space characters and use tabs instead for positioning. Note that removing the space characters will shift the layout of the document and should be applied by a layout operator and not a compliance operator.