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Re: Formatting Problems w/ Word 4.0 between 2 Macs

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From: lanett mark
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 20:41
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nino@agora.uucp (John Canino) writes:

>I am having a problem.  I do work for my college library, but we don't
>have a laser printer (currently) at our disposal.  So, I usually go across
>campus to do my printing.

>The problem is, even though the fonts are the same on both machines, and
>the sizes, etc., my formatting is getting screwed up.  Columns are getting
>truncated, etc.  Am I missing somthing? :-)

I guess you're using a laserwriter on the other end... Make sure that you select
laserwriter from the chooser on the machine in the library, where you create the
docs. The printable page area differs between the image and laserwriters, and
your machine must be calculating margins using the imagewriter settings.

Mark Lanett
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Subject: Re: Formatting Problems w/ Word 4.0 between 2 Macs
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