WYSIWYG problem

The problem I encountered of the display on the screen not reflecting what was seen in the print preview was due to the "hide blank space" feature of MS Word 2003. I had not encountered this in in previous versions of MS Word and so did not know of its exsistnce.

The way to deal with this issue is to scroll up on the open page until two small boxes with opposing arrows appear. Click on these and a dark a dark blue area appears on the LH vertical ruler. This allows the user to control the amount of the margin that they see on the screen.

This is posted as an FYI for anyone like me who are not proficient in the use of MS Word 2003.
Allen





allen horstmanshof wrote:

WYSWYG Probelms
08-Jan-10

Hi Doug,

Thank you for your prompt response and apologies for my tardy reply.

The problem seems to be not in the application to printer area but in the Word 2003 application itself. When I create a document using the Print Layout option under the View tag, the image that I get on the screen indicates that the text box or non textual file that I have inserted on the page exceeds the boundaries of the page. When I print the page or view it in Print Preview the image is well within the boundaries of the printed page. Page Setup indicates that the page I am viewing is the correct size (in this case A4) yet the print layout view seems to use an entrenched size that is smaller than the A4 it is supposed to display. In Word 2000 when I used the print layout option, the paper size shown on the screen was pretty much what was loaded and printed. It was not dead accurate but far more WYSIWYG than is its successor.

I can live with this I suppose as I there is a workarounds but it is a nuisance of sizing the stuff beyond what I see on the screen and then to switch across to print preview to see if I am still inside the boundaries of the page. It seems to be a bug in Word 2003 that I assume is based upon the assumption that the whole world uses American paper sizes.

Nonetheless thank you for your input

Allen

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I believe that it was with Word 2003 that the hide white space feature was
introduced.

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The problem I encountered of the display on the screen not reflecting what
was seen in the print preview was due to the "hide blank space" feature of
MS Word 2003. I had not encountered this in in previous versions of MS
Word and so did not know of its exsistnce.

The way to deal with this issue is to scroll up on the open page until two
small boxes with opposing arrows appear. Click on these and a dark a dark
blue area appears on the LH vertical ruler. This allows the user to
control the amount of the margin that they see on the screen.

This is posted as an FYI for anyone like me who are not proficient in the
use of MS Word 2003.
Allen





allen horstmanshof wrote:

WYSWYG Probelms
08-Jan-10

Hi Doug,

Thank you for your prompt response and apologies for my tardy reply.

The problem seems to be not in the application to printer area but in the
Word 2003 application itself. When I create a document using the Print
Layout option under the View tag, the image that I get on the screen
indicates that the text box or non textual file that I have inserted on
the page exceeds the boundaries of the page. When I print the page or
view it in Print Preview the image is well within the boundaries of the
printed page. Page Setup indicates that the page I am viewing is the
correct size (in this case A4) yet the print layout view seems to use an
entrenched size that is smaller than the A4 it is supposed to display. In
Word 2000 when I used the print layout option, the paper size shown on
the screen was pretty much what was loaded and printed. It was not dead
accurate but far more WYSIWYG than is its successor.

I can live with this I suppose as I there is a workarounds but it is a
nuisance of sizing the stuff beyond what I see on the screen and then to
switch across to print preview to see if I am still inside the boundaries
of the page. It seems to be a bug in Word 2003 that I assume is based
upon the assumption that the whole world uses American paper sizes.

Nonetheless thank you for your input

Allen

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