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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
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Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0:  How to switch off letterspacing?
Summary: Wasting away the moments that make up a dull day . . .
Message-ID: <3953@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 00:18:56 GMT
References: <1991May17.145012.30882@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <3945@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991May18.130823.30894@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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In article <1991May18.130823.30894@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:

[obvious stuff deleted]

>I was sort of hoping for advice from someone who knew what they were
>talking about, not from a loudmouth cretin.  Do you know what letter-
>spacing is?  I didn't think so.  It's what you get if you use the
>'expand spacing' option in the character menu.  The original poster
>apparently found that Word did this to him automatically when he
>set a line to justified mode.  I suspect he has 'expand spacing'
>somehow defined in a style, but his post suggests he doesn't.  I would
>LIKE to have letterspacing be done automatically in some contexts,
>especially narrow columns (newspaperlike) in which the absense of
>letterspacing makes for some awfully big word-spacing.  If you know
>where this is in the manual, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Right, Word doesn't do this.  Like another poster has stated, these
are two completely different concepts.  Since the original poster mentioned
justification, I thought it a reasonable assumption that it was really
the spacing between words that was being referred to.  Expanded spacing is
in effect whether justification is on or not, making mention of justification
unnecessary.  Had justification not been mentioned, the assumption would be
that expanded spacing is in effect.

Oh, and thank you for calling me a loudmouth cretin.  That was so necessary.

>What I don't appreciate is being accused of software piracy before
>an audience of 30K or 40K people.

Did I?  Where?

>If you know what's good for you,
>you won't do that anymore.  Understand?

And WHAT, pray tell, is this?  Perhaps this threat is better suited for email.
Please take it there.  I would be amused to know what you think is "good for
me."

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>    Why is it that people on the net who are so in love with their
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>    totally full of shit?

<Sigh>  It is a disclaimer.  It lets people know that I speak only for myself
and that I am not a parrot of other men's thinking.

         ---------   Doc


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