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From: fritz@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Gary Fritz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Word/Windows screen width
Message-ID: <11850001@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 17:39:19 GMT
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
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My wife is a big MS Word user, and I've recently started using it too.
She just switched to Windows 3.0 on a VGA, and moved to Word for Windows.
There are lots of nice improvements, but one thing drives me bananas:
the WYSIWYG display insists on scaling the page wider than the screen!
I.e. you can only see about 5" of the 8"-wide page at a time.  The display
jumps back and forth between left & right side while you're typing, which
is incredibly distracting, and it's also difficult to proofread a document
when you can only see 2/3 of it!

I looked through the (marginal) Word for Windows manuals, and could find
no hints on how to fix this problem.  *Can* it be fixed, or is this just
a "feature" of the WYSIWYG display and the size of the fonts they use?
Can different (smaller) fonts be used, or is there some way to re-scale
the "page size" or something like that?

Thanks for any tips!
Gary Fritz
fritz@hpfclp.sde.hp.com