Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!esf00 From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Word annoyance Message-ID: <99C902nq4d7c01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 23 Aug 89 01:37:48 GMT References: Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Organization: The Beige Building Full of Bright Engineers, Inc. Lines: 34 In article carter@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU ("Thomas J. Carter") writes: > > I'm having a few problems with Word 4.0 which I can't solve and >Microsoft Tech Support didn't have any solution to. The situation >is this: I created some letterhead in Adobe and placed the postcript >into the header of a Word file. This works great, but with two >major annoyances. > > First, Page View and Print Preview have become useless because >Word displays the postcript as if it were standard text, forcing all >my regular text all over the place. Ideally I'd like to have the >postcript displayed in some semblance of what it will look like when >printed but I'd settle for allowing my text to appear where it will >when printed. > I don't have an answer to the second, but as to the first ... RTFM. (__Menus__, for the flamers on the net!) In the "Preferences ..." Dialog, there is a check box for "Show Hidden Text." Uncheck it. Since the Postscript style is Hidden Text, your displays will return to Microsoft's WYSI(Almost)WYG. If you have any Postscript in your document that you are editing, you will end up (like me) constantly setting and resetting this value. BTW, if you're printing a letterhead, you may want to use the Section option "First Page Special" and put your Postscript into the First Header. This will give you letterhead on your first page only. -- Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00 [the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.] [the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.]