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Comparing the MS Word normal style on two computers?
Subject:Comparing the MS Word normal style on two computers? From:"Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:05:14 -0700
When my wife composes a Word document on her (Win2K) laptop and sends it
to me, and I open it on my (Win 98) desktop system, there are
significant layout differences. It could be margins, leading, kerning,
whatever, but pages she has carefully laid out are all wonky on my
system. Pages break where they should not. Flows between columns break
at different points, etc.
Even though she uses only fonts we both have, it is wonky.
I copied all her fonts to my system and that made no change to the
wonkiness.
It has been suggested that a prime suspect would be that her Normal
style (yes, that's about all she uses, plus tweaks) is different from
mine. (I hardly use MS Word at all -- sticking with FrameMaker for any
real documentation jobs.)
Is there as simple way to compare two normal.dot files? Sure, one could
open each one on its own system and pane by pane compare the settings,
but is there a simpler way?
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