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yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes:

>In article <91114.135900IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET> IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET (Annice Grinberg) writes:
>>
>>   We have encountereed a strange problem with two of the Macs at the Weizmann
>>   Institute when running WORD4.  One is a Classic and the other an SE30, both
>>   System 6.07.  When the ruler is displayed it shows only six inches, instead
>>   of the almost seven that shows on other machines.  These "inches", when
>>   measured, indeed are greater than real inches.  One of these machines also
>>   has a Hebrew language system on it, and the ruler is fine when I open Word
>>   in that system, but when I boot from a floppy with a vanilla system there
>>   is the same problem.
>>

>	I heard that the width of the ruler in Word is determined by the
>	printer driver that you are using.  If the printer driver on the
>	"other machines" is different that you ones you are having problems
>	with, try changing the driver.

Sometimes a document will get confused about which printer
driver it is configured for and you have to "wake it up." The
way to do it is to first make sure you have two different type
of printers that show up when you choose "Chooser" (that is, you
have copies of, say, both the ImageWriter driver and the
LaserWriter driver in your system folder). With the document
open in Word, select Chooser from the Apple menu and choose the
printer driver you _don't_ want. You'll get a message saying
that you should use Page Setup for the document. Close the
Chooser and choose Page Setup and just okay the dialog box
button. Then go back to Chooser again, this time choosing the
correct printer, close the Chooser and go through the okay
procedure in Page Setup again. Then the ruler should have
changed to look like the ruler in your other documents.

It may not be necessary to go through this overkill procedure,
the document may format correctly by simply choosing page setup
but sometimes you have to go through the whole thing of changing
to a different driver just to make the document recognize the
change.
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Dana E. Keil                Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley                      dana@are.berkeley.edu