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Word 4.0 Page Size PROBLEM

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From: Michael J Kobb
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 06:28
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Greetings,

  I'm having a bit of a problem with Word 4.0.  For some reason, it seems to
have decided that letter-sized pages (and legal, for that matter) are 7.625
inches wide, not 8.5.

  If I open up a document in the page-view mode, and display it on my Radius
Pivot (which lets me see the whole thing), the edges of the page fall at -1.25
and +6.375.  Now, this is decidedly odd, since the page is EXACTLY the same
size (on screen) as it was when it was still 8.5" wide!  Printing yields a
correct left margin, and a very large right margin.  I tried typing 8.5x11 at
the custom paper size option in the Preferences dialog, but nothing changed...

  To add to the confusion, this is the SECOND time I've seen this problem.
The first time was on a friend's machine.  Our configurations are about as
different as you can get (he's got an SE, a Radius FPD, and a DeskWriter; I've
got a IIx, a Radius Pivot, Apple RGB, and a DeskWriter).  In his case, we just
trashed the Word(4) Settings file, and that fixed it.  However, I've
customized my menus fairly extensively, and I'll be very upset if I have to
redo all of that.

  Any ideas?  Anyone else seen this behavior?  Anyone from Microsoft out
there?

  System config:  Word 4.00B, System 6.0.5, Mac IIx, 8Mb, legion inits,
Deskwriter printer (with driver version 2.1 [note that my friend was using
2.0]), Adobe Type Manager (v2.0).

Thanks!
--Mike

PS: PLEASE email me.  I can't keep up with the traffic in this group (although
I checked all the articles stored here before I posted).  I'll post a summary.
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From: mjkobb@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
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Subject: Word 4.0 Page Size PROBLEM
Summary: Why does it think Letter is 7.625" wide????
Keywords: Microsoft Word 4.0 PROBLEM Page Size
Message-ID: <5379@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 91 06:28:36 GMT
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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