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I prefer to do the writing or typing first and determine the layout later. I concentrate first on getting the words right. Word makes this much easier because you can fiddle with formatting indefinitely and experiment with style definitions to propagate changes across an entire document.

As for the PDFs, it appears that it is not the printable area that is shrinking but the print area; are you sure you're printing with "No scaling"? Could this be a result of printing to a specific printer?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Bert Coules" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EM2dna4YYet3mpXWnZ2dnUVZ8g-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Suzanne S Barnhill wrote:

Your printable area shouldn't shrink when printing to PDF; if so, it should be possible to redefine it in your PDF software.

I've experimented a fair bit with this, and whatever settings I adopt in my PDF reader (Adobe Reader 9) the printable area *does* shrink. The page-by-page formatting remains absolutely spot-on, but the margins (top and bottom as well as left and right) all increase, with a subsequent reduction in the font size. I can see no reason for it and it's somewhat baffling.

I took to Word like a duck to water; it has always seemed more intuitive to me. Part of that, I'm sure, was that Word was the first Windows word processor I used, and the GUI made everything easier; WP was slow to move to a GUI and made a hash of it at first...

Ah, that didn't affect me, since I continued to use WP 5.0 for DOS long after I first (reluctantly) installed Windows for other reasons. I saw no need to move to a GUI version, partly because the DOS software already did everything I required, and partly because I was very familiar with it and didn't want to start learning all over again.

I suspect that how well you take to either program depends at least slightly on what type of writing you do and how you do it. For me, the linear approach makes perfect sense: You set up a number of conditions (margins, font, spacing and all the rest) then enter text until you need to change one of them. Make the change, then off you go again. Simple, obvious and logical!

Bert




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