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From: hlt@iapic.cvm.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MW 4.0 quandry
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Date: 7 Sep 89 13:20:00 GMT
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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.

We had a similar problem with Word 3.0.  Our problem was that one 
machine was using an Imagewriter and the other was using a 
Laserwriter.  Word uses different rulers for the different printers.
I agree it is very disconcerting.  I would start a document at work
on a Mac/LW combination and take the file home to my Mac/IW
combination to finish.  To my suprise the document would have
changed.  I did not find the answer in the books, but selecting the
correct printer through the chooser does the trick.


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Harold L. Trammel	hlt@iapic.cvm.uiuc.edu 
IAPIC-CVM
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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