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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS-Word problems
Keywords: MS Word problems justification fractional spacing
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Date: 28 Feb 89 15:58:05 GMT
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In article <4916@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
<I've been having two persistent problems with Word 3.02 (on a Mac
<SE & system 6.02) that I'd appreciate some advice on:
<1. I have an even header, the last part of which I want lined up
<   with the right edge of the page. So I put a right tab at the right
<   margin. It looks OK on the screen, but no matter what I try it
<   either ends about 1/4" short of the margin or 1/4" past it when it prints.
<   Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

I ran into that too. If you have Word highly customized, the solution the
first time is painful: toss out your Word Settings file (in the System
folder). Thereafter, keep backups of your Word Settings file. It seems to
become corrupted easily.

I haven't seen the problem lately, probably because I don't use odd and
even headers anymore. If you want to really screw up the Word Settings
file, try going back and forth between radically different formats. I
used to do 8 1/2 x 11-inch pages at work (portrait) and pages half that
size (landscape) for a consulting job. 

Take one document type into page preview while the Word Settings file
is appropriate for the other type of document. All kinds of interesting
things happen with the right margin.

<2. I like to print all my documents with 'fractional widths' turned
<   on. Word seems to remember this setting when the file is saved
<   but then forgets it from time to time. Is there any way I can
<   make this option permanent?

I liked fractional widths too, until I found out the indexing program
doesn't use it when it forces a repagination. For documents as short as
18 pages, I had index terms showing up on the non-existent page 19. I
had to reprint the entire 200+ page document (lots of chapters) without
fractional widths, then run the indexes again. It cost me an entire 
holiday weekend and several hundred dollars in lost consultant fees.

Word 4.0 supposedly puts fractional widths on the page setup dialog
where it belongs. (Could Microsoft have actually listened to my
suggestion?  Stu: this was in my letter that you couldn't track.)
 
<BTW, since no one else has asked in the past week: what's the latest
<word on Word 4? Should registered users be expecting an upgrade notice?
<(I'm registered, and I haven't received one.)
 
Patience...we're all waiting.

Shirley Kehr