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- From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
- Subject: Re: Word Font Display (was MS Word)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.064907.3414@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <1992Sep9.094149.8756@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:49:07 GMT
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- banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
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- >IN an article 'butscher@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Adrian Butscher)'
- >writes:
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- >>Is it me, or does MS Word 5.0 display fonts a little strangely? Let me be
- >>specific. When I open a new document, I use Palatino as default font (this
- >>problem happens with a lot of other fonts as well). Word seems to space
- >>letters badly. The e will be too close to the a, leaving a big gap on the other side
- >>of the e, for instance. When I view documents converted from MS Word 4, this
- >>doesn't happen. Could someone out there reply to me about this problem - it's
-
- >It is annoying! Go to the 'page setup' command in the 'edit' menu. If the
- >check-box marked 'fractional widths' is checked, uncheck it (and, for good
- >measure, check the 'use as a default' box, to stop it happening again).
- >Your document should now look as nature/God/you intended it.
-
- I disagree. Use fractional widths. It also depends on what printer you're
- going to. Fractional widths work fine for me with both IW II and DeskWriter.
- BTW, Page Setup is in the File menu, not Edit. Always has been.
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- Muff
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