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Subject:Question about Word 2000 From:Guy <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:32:40 -0800
I've been using FrameMaker for 11 years or so, and I'm very comfortable with it.
But I'm a rank rookie with Word.
My wife produces a newsletter. She asks me to convert it to PDF, because I have
full Acrobat on my system.
She is running Word2000 on Windows 2000; I am running it on Windows 98.
A page that she formats carefully on her system sometimes runs longer on my
system, so it spills to the next sheet -- I have to find ways to shave length
off it without grossly affecting the layout.
We have the same fonts -- no just fonts that look the same, but the same fonts.
I must assume that my Word has some niggly configuration settings that differ
from hers. Can a Word guru out Techwr-Land give me any clues about what to look
for? Thanks.
