Gaps In between Letters Of Full Words When Merging Files To Single .pdf Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 Pro

Setup
Windows XP SP3 + Office 2007 Pro
Also, tested on Windows 7 64x + Office 2007 Pro
Same Issues.
The steps used are:
1) Open Adobe Acrobat 9.0
2) Click File
3) Combine
4) Merge Files into a single PDF
5) Add Files (select the required files)
6) Combine Files (which then processes and creates single PDF)
Results:
A single PDF is then created and as mentioned is occasionally affected by this issue of random gaps appearing within words.
Expected results:
A single PDF with the same formatting and layout as the original files.
I can not post screenshots of this issue for sercurity concerns but here is an example.
From my word document / or pdf (either way)
Drawing Contents
Fabrication Notes
Bill of Materials
Assembly Notes
Top Assembly Drawing
Bottom Assembly Drawing
Schematics
After the Merging of the files
Drawing Contents
Fabri ation ote
Bi of Materia
A emb y ote
Top A emb y Drawing
Bottom A emb y Drawing
S hemati
Seems like "C" "S" "N" "L" 's are missing
EDIT: isn't constant, so its just not these letters its random
Note: Tested this issue with Acrobat 8, and did not have this issue.
Please Help
Message was edited by: Bitzan

Thanks for the response.
I have checked though the Word documents that were used in the most recent merge. They don't have any spaces at these areas or strange formatting. I turned on the Show/Hide option to confirm if there was anything odd but I could not see anything. The formatting (Ctrl+D) shows the default font Arial, Regular, font 12.
The interesting thing is that if it occurs and attempt another file merge the gaps are no longer there. Which makes me think this is unlikely to be the documents and formatting being used and more likely to be a bug in Adobe Acrobat.
Is there anything else that might be of use to know?

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