Re: View 100% of Normal
- From: "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:45:40 +0100
It is certainly true that 100% is just a benchmark and it is not even necessarily possible.
However, Word can and should know how big your screen is and what resolution you are running at, but that isn't really important. Word asks Windows for the information and Windows tells it whatever you, the user, have told Windows.
Right click the desktop and choose properties and the font size setting is hiding somewhere in there. The rather misleadingly named dots per inch can be adjusted to more-or-less what you want in Vista (XP is a bit more limited if I recall) and the figure you give it will be the number of dots (pixels) used to display a 'real' inch. There is just one setting so you will get distortion if your resolution is not in the same ratio as your physical screen (e.g. 1024 x 768 on a 5:4 ratio screen will be slightly vertically stretched)
On a default setting of 96 dots per inch, 96 pixels will be used per inch. Running at this setting with a resolution of 1024 x 768 means that the full width of the screen will be occupied by what Word thinks is (1024/96) = 10 2/3". On a 4:3 ratio monitor this equates to a 13 1/3" diagonal screen. So, if you are running at this resolution on a 17" monitor, say, what Word thinks of as 100% is actually around 130%.
Probably more than you wanted to know :-)
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Enjoy,
Tony
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ueE4tkM%23IHA.1184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your previous question received several replies, one of which was mine. In order to view a document at "actual size," you will have to determine what Zoom percentage that is. It is very unlikely that it will be 100%, which is just a benchmark on which the other ratios are based. If you think about it, I think you can understand that Word has no idea what size or resolution your monitor is.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"NJ" <NJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:39A12A73-A88A-49A7-95F6-91CE950C6256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI may have asked this before, but I think it got lost.
I want to view my document in true 100% of its size. Now an 8 1/2 x 11" is
not shown at 100% of its size. Even the ruler is not in true inches.
How can I ge the document to show at 100% of its true size?
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