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From: rlancast@bgsuvax.UUCP (Ron Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about MS-Word...
Summary: MS Word:  Opening with a ruler
Message-ID: <6854@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 91 13:43:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.030733.14138@cs.dal.ca>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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In article <1991Jan24.030733.14138@cs.dal.ca>, paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nuno M. Paixao) writes:
> 1. Is there any way to change your defaults so that when you first boot the 
> application your ruler will came up by itself.

All you need to do is go to Commands (under Edit), select "Open Files
With Ruler" (or something similar) and click on the DO button.  It won't
affect the current window, but any new one you open will have the ruler
automatically displayed.