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From: pswisnov@phoenix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: word 3.0 fixed height lines
Message-ID: <161@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 13:30:31 EST
Article-I.D.: phoenix.161
Posted: Sun Mar 29 13:30:31 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Mar-87 03:18:31 EST
References: <6562@allegra.UUCP>
Reply-To: pswisnov@phoenix.UUCP (Peter S. Wisnovsky)
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
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In article <6562@allegra.UUCP> kautz@allegra.UUCP (Henry Kautz) writes:
>Replace this line with your message
>Ok, quitcher bellyaching!  Word 3.0 DOES allow you have absolutetly
>fixed height lines!  Just enter the line height as a NEGATIVE number:
>ie, -12 = 12 points and I mean it!  You can easily do the trick of 
>beginning a paragraph with a large letter this way --- eg
>###### his is what
>  #    you wanted 
>  #    to do all
>  #    along.
>The big letter will looked chopped off in normal view, but do Page
>Preview and it appears just the way you want it.

Really? I tried the negative number thing the last time, and I tried
it again just now, but I still get the second line below rather then
next to the large character:

TTT his is a test
 T
 T
    of the emergency
    broadcasting sys-
    tem.

The first character was 48 point subscripted by 24 points, and the
line spacing was set to -24.