Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!dalcs!aucs!peter From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Two MS-WORD Printing Questions Message-ID: <1066@aucs.UUCP> Date: 3 May 88 12:25:01 GMT Reply-To: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) Distribution: na Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 61 I have a couple of questions about MS-WORD and printing: 1. Back in the "old days" when I was using Word 1.0, I used a trick that allowed me to format a document for the laserwriter and print it on an imagewriter without the document's margins being changed. That is, Word would not scale the ruler and make lines "longer". All I had to do was simply select the imagewriter with Chooser and print the document. Word would not reformat the text to reflect the imagewriter's "wider" margins. When Word 3.0 came out, this "feature" was lost. Now when you switch printers, Word automatically reformats things as necessary to reflect the printer's characteristics. In many instances I like this. However, if you are creating a document that is to be ultimately printed on a laserwriter but you want to print draft copies an imagewriter, it would be nice if you could make Word leave the ruler (and subsequently the page breaks) alone, allowing you to print the document on an imagewriter looking, more or less, the way it will look when it is printed on a LaserWriter. The real problem we're having here is students will write their thesis or report or whatever in the Mac lab, printing draft copies on the imagewriter, as well as editing their document with imagewriter selected. We've warned students that they should always edit with laserwriter selected if they intent to print the final copy on the laserwriter, but there is always a large number who ignore the warnings. They end up printing their "finished" document on the laserwriter, and then complaining that the "formatting is all wrong." And even if they do read our warnings about having to edit with the laserwriter selected, when they print draft copies on the imagewriter, the formatting is incorrect this way as well. Its not as important since draft copies are usually for proofreading, but if would also be nice if students could eyeball their reports' formatting on imagewriter output. My question, finally, is this: Is there a way to make Word not scale its ruler when changing from LaserWriter to ImageWriter (or vice versa for that matter). A solution to this problem would really be useful in our environment, and I imagine other universities must be experiencing the same problems if they have Mac labs used for documentation. I would be eager to hear from other people who have experienced this problem. 2. And now question 2. A department here has been using MacWrite to print labels but wants to switch to Word. The labels they have to print are very tiny but need three lines of text. Consequently, they have to use 7 point Geneva to fit what they want on one label. Since 7 point Geneva is really to small too edit in for any amount of text, they are using 14 point Geneva and print with the imagewriter's 50% reduction option. The results are perfect. Word also has this reduction option (accessed using shift-Page Setup). It even automatically scales the paper size when you select it. However, when you print, it *does not scale the fonts*, only the margins. So text is clipped off on all four margins, and of course, its in 14 point, not the required 7 point. Is this a bug in Word or is this the way its supposed to work? Is there a work around? Is it fixed in 3.02? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU