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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: MS Word and the laser printer...
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Date: 15 Aug 90 14:37:24 GMT
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In article <36022@ut-emx.UUCP> awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>Using the Format Paragraph options gets into what I call "text programming".
>I have seen novice users (even those very comfortable with word processing in
>Word) make selections in the Format dialog that conflict with other document
>settings, i.e. setting some value for Space After _and_ using double-spacing.
>Another thing they confuse is the page margin and the left/right indent.
>
>The problem with using dialogs to format text is that you have to bring up the
>dialog to see the settings.  By using returns, you can see exactly how much
>space your lines are taking up (assuming you know the fontsize selected - a 
>simple menu click).  

<FLAME ON (low)>
USE THE FLAMING RULER
<FLAME OFF>
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