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From: jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MW 4.0 quandry
Summary: ImageWriter vs. LaserWriter
Keywords: Word, Ruler, Perplexing
Message-ID: <18067@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 15:56:53 GMT
References: <4307@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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>      Users of MW 4.0 at my site are having great problems with
> the formatting of documents opened on one Mac that were created on
> another.  The problem seems to have something to do with the differ-
> ent ruler widths that Word 4 displays on compact Mac screens.  The
> screen either gives 6" of text per line, or slightly more than 6.5"
> per line, which is wreaking havoc on both the screen view and printed
> output.
> 
>      Has anyone encountered this before, or know of a fix?  I have
> tried to make the Word Settings (4) file standard on all machines, 
> but this does not seem to help at all.  We are using a variety of
> machines, but most are SEs (old and FDHD).
> 
>      Summary to follow, if some kind soul(s) can help out!

The reason for the different ruler sizes is the that your machines are
printing on different printers--or at least, the Chooser DA thinks so.
If you "Choose" ImageWriter, you get a 6" ruler; if you "Choose" Laser-
Writer, you get a >6.5" ruler.  You can always choose the exact size
of the margins in Page Set-Up (ver. 3.02) or Document (ver. 4.0), but
if you choose 1in margins instead of 1.25in, and you haec "Chosen" Image-
Writer, the last 0.5" of text on the right will be hidden (but you can use
the horizontal scroll bar).

There are two easy solutions:  always set up your documents to have 1.25"
margins (thus you will still get different rulers on your machines, but
the text will always be in the first 6"), or always "Choose" LaserWriter
when editing, which will give you the default 6.5" ruler.  Change it back
if you print on an ImageWriter, just for printing.  I used to have a
macro (AutoMac III) to toggle the printer in Chooser...

I hope this helps!

Jay Boisseau
jay@emx.utexas.edu