thanx though. i'm taking the wine and the walk. it's
been a bad experience all around - why won't people
listen to the people who actually know what they're doing!
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bugger...

Surely there's a compromise. If you're dealing with
text, then Word is not a
bad solution: the problem here is trying to use a table
for text that
shouldn't be in a table. As David Ogilvie once put it,
when all else fails
try half a bottle of good red wine and a long walk. Then
take a chunk of
your text and let your imagination run free. There
always IS a good solution
there somewhere.




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you know that, i know that, but the boss will only work
in word and there's that pesky 1024 limit in excel. so
there you go. nothing i have been able to say or do
will
detach the boss and word. and it is unreadable!
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The obvious answer is: don't use this format. If
you're
having trouble so
much trouble writing it, the end result will be
unreadable. Choose a format
that works for the material you're dealing with.

People often insist that they must use a particular
format because "it's a
requirement" -- this is almost never true. Even the
prickliest of
bureaucrats will accept a readable document in
preference to an unreadable
one, whatever the requirements may say.




"lydia" wrote in
message
...
i have an extremely large table which is formatted
in 6
point arial, legal landscape. i'm doing revisions
and
have blown it up to 150% to be able to read it on
the
screen. however, this means that scrolling from the
end
of cell to the one below moves the cursor the first
cell
in the row, necessitating a lot of scrolling. at
150
percent, of course, the column does not fit on the
screen
(small monitor, can't be fixed). any suggestions?
tia.


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