Problems with compressed words in emails sent through Outlook in Office for Mac 2011

I have had problems with sending emails through Outlook both when:
1) I copied text from a Word document and pasted into an email.
2) I shared as HTML and sent an email.
The problem I experience is that emails are received with random spaces dropped, such that words get merged together.
I have spoken with Microsoft and have been told that problems with the copy and paste from Word into Outlook is a known issue.
However, I have been told that I should be able to "Share as an HTML" in an email without issue. However, the very same problem exists.
Now I am told that this may be a problem with my documents. However, I have had a colleague use my docs in the same way in Outlook on his PC without a problem. The other possibility I am told is that possibly I have a problem with my OS.
Have others expererienced the same problem?

Is your Outlook window formatted as HTML or text only? A word file has formatted text. If you want to copy only the text from your Word file, you should make a detour over a TextEdit window, or if you have BBEdit like follows:
Copy your Word text, paste it into a TextEdit window - in this window you have to make a command first SHIFT + COMMAND + T if you have a window allowing formatting ("rich text"). Copy it once again - all the Meta formatting from Word are eliminated now! - and paste the text into your Outlook Window.
If you want to send an HMTL Email, I am not sure, whether a copy and paste between Word and Outlook will work. This would mean, that the copy and paste should transform the Word-formatting into HTML-formatting fit for Outlook. Perhaps some others could answer this question.
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