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From: sdh@wind.bellcore.com (Stephen D Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 3.02 printing question
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Date: 16 Nov 89 20:29:08 GMT
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In article <5276@ncar.ucar.edu> bill@hao.ucar.edu (Bill Roberts) writes:
>OK, I'm like way confused...  I've written bunches of stuff on my Mac+
>at home using MS Word 3.02. 
 
>So, instead of using my Imagewriter to print the stuff I thought I'd
>use a MacII at work, which is hooked up to a LaserwriterII NTX.
>Low and behold, I start up Word and open my documents and find that
>the page layout is totally hosed up!  

Your problem is that MS word is trying to format for an imagewriter on
a LaserWriter.  Oops.  What you see is not QUITE what you get.  To fix
it, choose the LaserWriter as the printer of choice, make sure that
Page Setup reflects this, then repaginate the sucker.  Low and beholdm
your onscreen version will be just as hosed as your paper version.
Take the time and trouble to go in and fix all the new formatting 
problems, and remember not to exceed the .5 inch margin all around
the page that you can print in under page preview that gets cropped if
you print on the laser printer.  Thank you Microsoft for one of the most
counter-intuitive travesties of a Word processor for the Mac market that
you can get away with because you're huge.

Oops.  Excuse my flame.

Steve Hawley
sdh@flash.bellcore.com

"Up is where you hang your hat."
	--Jim Blandy, computer scientist