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From: rice@WILLOW.CRAY.COM (Jonathan Rice)
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Subject: [QUATTRO] Fitting boxes around small fonts
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Date: 3 Jan 91 15:47:41 GMT
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Having watched unsuccessfully for a FAQ or monthly posting in this group, I
venture a perhaps misdirected question.  In which case, a pointer to another
forum would be helpful.

In Quattro Pro 1.01, I have the font set to 8-point Dutch for a large table.
The small font lets me get enough columns across to make the printed
spreadsheet useful.  In this table, I've done a
/Style/Line Drawing/Outside/Single and a /Style/Line Drawing/Vertical/Single.
Here's the problem: if I size the columns to fit the data 
(/Style/Block Width/Auto Width) then things look fine while I'm
working with the spreadsheet editor -- but when I print
(/Print/Destination/Graphics Printer) the boxes are too wide:

     +-----------------------+---------------------+-------...
     |                123.45 |               67.89 |       ...
     +_______________________+_____________________+_______...

If on the other hand I set individual column widths so that the printed boxes
fit nicely around the data, then in the spreadsheet editor I'm faced mostly
with **** entries 'cause the  columns are too narrow.  It seems as if
whatever algorithm figures out how to draw boxes in graphics mode can't allow
for the size of the enclosed font.  For now, I'm using a couple of macros to 
select either width-for-printing or width-for editing, but isn't there a
nicer way to make this all come out automagically?

Here's a second bonus question I just remembered: with every possible switch
set to select YY-MM-DD date formats, I still get the ugly
DD-monthname-YY format in page headers (/Print/Layout/Header) in place of 
the "@" meta-character.  Any hints here?

Thanks for answers or gentle direction to another newsgroup.

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