When you type directly on an Archivist sheet, NEVER TYPE A CARRIAGE RETURN at the end of a line but DO SO at the end of a paragraph. When you will export a document to use it in your regular Word Processor, it will be much easier to adjust the margins.
By default, all texts put in The Archivist are formatted with the MONACO font because this font is available from the Read Only Memory (ROM) of all Macintosh computers. Another raison for this is the fact that this font is an equally spaced font; in other words a "i" or a "w" will occupy the same width in a word.
Because of this, you will be able to do pseudo-tabulations with the space bar and type fairly good looking tables. After importing an Archivist document in your Word Processor, you can select the whole text or only the table and use the COURIER font which is another monospaced font. Laser printers will print your document correctly. You can use a font like BOSTON II or another monospaced font on an ImageWriter printer.
Now let us experiment to check the influence of a font on a table format...
1) Return to the Help dialog and double-click on the "Tabulations and Font" and take a look at the following table. You will then be looking a MONACO document and the table will show correct columns.
2) Return to the Help dialog and double-click on an item other than "Tabulations and Font" and come to this dialog with the navigation button. You will then be looking a GENEVA document and the table will not show correct columns.
This is why The Archivist uses Monaco as default font and this is also the reason why many electronic billboards do the same.
