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In article <1203@swbatl.UUCP> george@swbatl.UUCP (6544) writes:
>                   the margins and page breaks are messed up.  I don't
>think the footers are quite right, either.  Fonts might be messed up
>to.  I've tried messing with the above items, but I can't seem to get
>it right.                      
>
>Am I doing something fundamentally wrong?  My Word manual doesn't seem
>to be of much help since the index only shows an entry on saving
>MacWrite documents.
>
Mumble.

I've hit the same problems -- mostly in attempting to translate the
Macintosh Technical Notes to Word printable.  I had a chat with a tech
rep from Microsoft about the issue back when Word 3.02 was current.  In
summary --

      o character handling is just *slightly* different in Word than in
	anything else. Use of clover-I in Word as an way to see what your
	page looks like as you twiddle is my recommendation.

      o paragraphs that overflow the right margin are wrapped in Word,
	but not in MW -- solution: go in and move the right margin on
	the offending paragraph out to the edge of the page.

      o Word uses font numbers, not names.  If you've changed the numbers
	with FontHarmony or manual twiddling, Word just plain will not
	like you. Flame Microsoft .... :-)

      o Automatic page numbers in places other than the right edge of the
	footer line are not specifieable in the MW interchange format --
	move it yourself to the proper spot.

In summary, it's not hard, but it's a bother.  I've probably wasted more
hours fixing stuff so that Word will format it nicely than a copy of MW
(or even MW II) would have cost me, but I persist.

If you really want a set of laser-printed Macintosh Technical Notes that
look the way the crew at Apple intended, and you don't want to spring for
MacWrite, order them from APDA.  Slower than the net, but no formatting
problems. :-)
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