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Re: Word Font Display (was MS Word)

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From: MuffinHead
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:49
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banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>IN an article 'butscher@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Adrian Butscher)'
>writes:

>>Is it me, or does MS Word 5.0 display fonts a little strangely? Let me be
>>specific.  When I open a new document, I use Palatino as default font (this
>>problem happens with a lot of other fonts as well).  Word seems to space
>>letters badly.  The e will be too close to the a, leaving a big gap on the other side
>>of the e, for instance.  When I view documents converted from MS Word 4, this
>>doesn't happen.  Could someone out there reply to me about this problem - it's

>It is annoying!  Go to the 'page setup' command in the 'edit' menu.  If the
>check-box marked 'fractional widths' is checked, uncheck it (and, for good
>measure, check the 'use as a default' box, to stop it happening again).
>Your document should now look as nature/God/you intended it.

I disagree. Use fractional widths. It also depends on what printer you're
going to. Fractional widths work fine for me with both IW II and DeskWriter.
BTW, Page Setup is in the File menu, not Edit. Always has been.

-- 
Muff
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