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From: SEK@PSUVM.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 3.02 printing question
Message-ID: <89322.150004SEK@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 18 Nov 89 20:00:03 GMT
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References: <5276@ncar.ucar.edu> <126900106@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
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[Someone asked why his word 3.02 stuff didn't come out right on the
 laser printer]
In article <126900106@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu says:
>
>I was told the laserwriter has bigger characters, and the spacing just
>isn't the same.  One partial workaround is to always compose your
>document for a LASERWRITER.  Then, when you to print on an
>imagewriter, your document might shrink in length (but this works fine
>in most cases).  You might also experiment with the 4% reduction
>option in the laserwriter dialogues.

One point often overlooked is that the LaserWriter is NOT going to print
your spaces the same way as the Imagewriter will.  Therefore, it is
absolutely ESSENTIAL to convert all spaces used for formatting purposes
to tabs.  This is easily done in Word 3.02 simply by selecting the entire
document (move the cursor to the left side of the document, with the
arrow pointing to the right, hold down the COMMAND key, and push the
mouse button), and then go up to the ruler and insert tabs for the
document as appropriate.  Then turn on Show [paragraph mark], which
I think is in the Edit menu (sorry, it's my default, so I forget exactly
where it is), and highlight each series of little dots (which represent
spaces), replacing them with an appropriate number of tab characters.

Hmm...I wonder how many resumes I will have to do this to this week...
(groan)
(Last week I even had one in MacWrite 5...what a pain.  No SHOW INVISIBLES...)
-Sonja
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