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From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MW 4.0 quandry
Summary: Could it be Fractional Widths?
Keywords: Word, Ruler, Perplexing
Message-ID: <134g02G5542W01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 9 Sep 89 00:27:09 GMT
References: <4307@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Organization: The Beige Building Full of Bright Engineers, Inc.
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In article <4307@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa) writes:
>
>     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.

Hmmmm.  Is the problem the ruler, or is it that some of the documents
have Fractional Widths turned on?  This little gem improves the quality
of LaserWritten output at the expense of consistant formatting (and some
of the rest of us *enjoy* being inconsistant :-)).  You also need to
check as to screen fonts being used -- recent postings in other threads
pointed out 1) MS-Word refers to fonts by FOND number, not by name, so
renumbered fonts (due to number conflicts) are not the same font, and 2)
MS-Word uses the *screen* font formatting characteristics to handle
some of the niceties (and Apple and Adobe screen fonts differ in these
characteristics).

Your mileage and format may vary ...

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