[libreoffice-users] Mysterious formats in a document converted from MS Word

I have a imported a 200-page document from MS Word 2000. Looking at
content.xml (that is in the resulting .odt), is see that every single
space character is wrapped with its own style, like this (line breaks
inserted for exposition only, they are not in the XML):

<text:p text:style-name="Standard">
This
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
manual
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
and
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
the
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
software
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
described
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
herein
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
are
...

The style is defined like this:

<office:automatic-styles>
...
<style:style style:name="T8" style:family="text"><style:text-properties
style:font-name-asian="Bergamo"/></style:style>

How can I get rid of this formatting (short of editing the XML)? The
style name "T8" does not appear anywhere in the style window.

If I type new text with spaces, they are not formatted like this, but
are as expected:

<text:p text:style-name="Standard">
This
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
man manual ual
<text:span text:style-name="T8"> </text:span>
...

-- Hannes

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