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Re: Word 3.0x Frac Width Bug

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From: Chris Johnson
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1988 14:49
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For those of you interested in bugs in Word 3.01 & 3.02 relating to the
Fractional Widths feature, here's my favorite:

Anytime you print a document containing graphics while the Fractional
Widths feature is turned on the frame of the graphic stays where it should
on the page, but the graphic itself moves half the page width to the right
within that frame.

I can't tell everyone how much fun I've had with this bug... let's see
I have to print this page with Frac Widths, then this page without, then
the next two with, and the last one without, etc.  Of course, since the
Frac Widths mode uses more accurate representations of character widths
than does the conventional mode, this does have the effect of changing 
the pagination, which comes as no surprise, but it means that working
around the bug is very difficult.

A last quibble:  there is no way (that I've come across) to indicate to
Word that you want to use Frac Widths without first doing a print, nor
can you move back to the conventional mode without doing another print
since the only place the control is ever presented is in the print
dialog.

Anyway, that's my current favorite MS Word bug.

----Chris
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Subject: Re: Word 3.0x Frac Width Bug
Keywords: Word, Fractional Widths, Bug
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