Re: font looks bigger on a different (mac or pc) system???

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From: Dayo Mitchell (dayomitchell_1997_at_NOhotmailSPAM.com.invalid)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:04:10 -0400

Hi Laura,

Use Google, Groups, Advanced Group Search, to look for this subject:
Re: Document length differences between Mac and Windows
On this group:
Microsoft.public.mac.office.word
In the last few days or so, there is an ongoing discussion of that issue and
a late but detailed reply just came in, I believe. (maybe that's your
thread, I don't know )

See here for gateway to Mac-specific ngs:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

DM

"laura" wrote:

> Oh! Sorry - I meant to post this on the Printing and Font
> group. I did. But if anyone has a clue, please let me
> know.
>
> Thanks
> --Laura
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Hi there,
>>
>> For some reason, when moving documents from my computer
>> (mac on OS9) and Word 98 version, to either 1. a mac
>> running OSX or 2. a PC running the latest Windows
> version
>> (both also with the latest Word version), the fonts look
>> bigger and the document gains a ridiculous amount of
>> pages.
>>
>> I've checked all that I can think of:
>> 1. font size (Times new roman 12)
>> 2. margin size (1 all around)
>> 3. paragraph size (double space)
>>
>> and, without fail, when I print from either the mac
>> running osx or the pc, the font looks bigger.
>>
>> Why is this?
>>
>> THanks,
>>
>> --Laura
>> .
>>

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