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Re: Strange WORD4 ruler problem

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From: Jonathan Brecher
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 04:54
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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.
... stuff deleted...
   I tried opening WORD from a floppy, and the same thing happens.  (The floppy
   works fine on other Macs.)  Even stranger, if I import a WORD file from
   another Mac the ruler for that file remains correct.  I tried replacing and
   deleting the Word Setting file, but that didn't change things.

It took me a LONG time to figure this one out on my own machine.
I was using the Imagewriter driver, which includes a check box in the 
Page Setup... dialog for Tall Adjusted. If you check this box and also
check the Set Defaults box, and then quit Word (don't know if that last step
is necessary), all documents will have 'real-sized' inches, showing almost 7"
on the screen.

Tall Adjusted helps the Imagewriter emulate the spacing for the Laserwriter.

			   jonathan brecher
			   brecher@husc9.harvard.edu
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From: brecher@husc9.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher)
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Subject: Re: Strange WORD4 ruler problem
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Date: 26 Apr 91 04:54:45 GMT
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