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awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:

>>1) Use tabs and NEVER USE MULTIPLE HARD SPACES.
>the other day someone wanted to creat a centered column of bulleted items.  A
>tab would not do since you would have to position the tab for each line based
>on where it was centered.   A couple of option-spaces worked quite well.

Bad choice. This may screw up spacing. You have the choice of left-justified,
right-justified and center tabs as well as left right and center paragraphs
for tables (an under-utilized feature). Each should be used over hard spaces.
I agree that indents should be used over tabs.

>>2) Never use hard returns to reformat.
>I'd have to disagree here. [reasons deleted]

Agreed that Paragraph positioning can be a pain and sometimes so can
Keep with next (although I have run into few problems with it), but
space before and after is an easy tool that should be used. Using
hard returns forces Word to make dubious decisions about the tops of
pages and when to keep something together at the end of the page.
Also, if you use styles, changing things is really no problem at all.
Almost nothing I ever do is in Normal style.

>>3) Use the Page preview command after choosing LW.
>The bottom line is that the ImageWriter isn't a good device to format output
>intended for the LaserWriter.  While you can set the ImageWriter for tall
>adjusted, you simply have to remember that the ImageWriter has a larger 
>imageable print area than the LaserWriter.  The best best would be to inform 
>the students to keep their margins large, and when they move to print their
>docs on the Laser, select Page Setup and click OK, and then do a Print Preview.

Couldn't agree more.

I think that novices need to slowly learn some features of Word. I agree
that some of the more powerful features are difficult to master, but
some are so useful, you wonder how you ever got along without them and
why you hadn't tried them in the first place.

pr
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