Annice Grinberg <IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET> (04/24/91)
We have encountereed a strange problem with two of the Macs at the Weizmann Institute when running WORD4. One is a Classic and the other an SE30, both System 6.07. When the ruler is displayed it shows only six inches, instead of the almost seven that shows on other machines. These "inches", when measured, indeed are greater than real inches. One of these machines also has a Hebrew language system on it, and the ruler is fine when I open Word in that system, but when I boot from a floppy with a vanilla system there is the same problem. I tried opening WORD from a floppy, and the same thing happens. (The floppy works fine on other Macs.) Even stranger, if I import a WORD file from another Mac the ruler for that file remains correct. I tried replacing and deleting the Word Setting file, but that didn't change things. Any ideas or suggestions would be most welcome. Annice
yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) (04/26/91)
In article <91114.135900IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET> IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET (Annice Grinberg) writes: > > We have encountereed a strange problem with two of the Macs at the Weizmann > Institute when running WORD4. One is a Classic and the other an SE30, both > System 6.07. When the ruler is displayed it shows only six inches, instead > of the almost seven that shows on other machines. These "inches", when > measured, indeed are greater than real inches. One of these machines also > has a Hebrew language system on it, and the ruler is fine when I open Word > in that system, but when I boot from a floppy with a vanilla system there > is the same problem. > I heard that the width of the ruler in Word is determined by the printer driver that you are using. If the printer driver on the "other machines" is different that you ones you are having problems with, try changing the driver. =Mike -- == Michael K. Yee <yee@osf.org> -+- OSF/Motif Team == Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 == "Live simply, so that others may simply live."
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (04/26/91)
yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: >In article <91114.135900IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET> IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET (Annice Grinberg) writes: >> >> We have encountereed a strange problem with two of the Macs at the Weizmann >> Institute when running WORD4. One is a Classic and the other an SE30, both >> System 6.07. When the ruler is displayed it shows only six inches, instead >> of the almost seven that shows on other machines. These "inches", when >> measured, indeed are greater than real inches. One of these machines also >> has a Hebrew language system on it, and the ruler is fine when I open Word >> in that system, but when I boot from a floppy with a vanilla system there >> is the same problem. >> > I heard that the width of the ruler in Word is determined by the > printer driver that you are using. If the printer driver on the > "other machines" is different that you ones you are having problems > with, try changing the driver. Sometimes a document will get confused about which printer driver it is configured for and you have to "wake it up." The way to do it is to first make sure you have two different type of printers that show up when you choose "Chooser" (that is, you have copies of, say, both the ImageWriter driver and the LaserWriter driver in your system folder). With the document open in Word, select Chooser from the Apple menu and choose the printer driver you _don't_ want. You'll get a message saying that you should use Page Setup for the document. Close the Chooser and choose Page Setup and just okay the dialog box button. Then go back to Chooser again, this time choosing the correct printer, close the Chooser and go through the okay procedure in Page Setup again. Then the ruler should have changed to look like the ruler in your other documents. It may not be necessary to go through this overkill procedure, the document may format correctly by simply choosing page setup but sometimes you have to go through the whole thing of changing to a different driver just to make the document recognize the change. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu
mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) (04/26/91)
In article <YEE.91Apr25144612@pmax14.osf.org> yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: >In article <91114.135900IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET> IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET (Annice Grinberg) writes: >> ] We have encountereed a strange problem with two of the Macs at the Weizmann ] Institute when running WORD4. One is a Classic and the other an SE30, both ] System 6.07. When the ruler is displayed it shows only six inches, instead ] of the almost seven that shows on other machines. These "inches", when ] measured, indeed are greater than real inches. One of these machines also ] has a Hebrew language system on it, and the ruler is fine when I open Word ] in that system, but when I boot from a floppy with a vanilla system there ] is the same problem. I've had a similar problem with Word. While it's true, as Michael Yee suggested, that the size of the inches varies with the printer driver, and you should check to make sure the proper printer is selected, I've also had Word somehow convince itself that the paper is a totally different size. The solution seems to be to go to the Chooser, pick a different printer, then do Page Setup, then go back to the Chooser and pick the proper printer again. --Mike
brecher@husc9.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher) (04/26/91)
In article <91114.135900IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET> IU3005@BARILVM.BITNET (Annice Grinberg) writes:
We have encountereed a strange problem with two of the Macs at the Weizmann
Institute when running WORD4. One is a Classic and the other an SE30, both
System 6.07. When the ruler is displayed it shows only six inches, instead
of the almost seven that shows on other machines. These "inches", when
measured, indeed are greater than real inches.
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I tried opening WORD from a floppy, and the same thing happens. (The floppy
works fine on other Macs.) Even stranger, if I import a WORD file from
another Mac the ruler for that file remains correct. I tried replacing and
deleting the Word Setting file, but that didn't change things.
It took me a LONG time to figure this one out on my own machine.
I was using the Imagewriter driver, which includes a check box in the
Page Setup... dialog for Tall Adjusted. If you check this box and also
check the Set Defaults box, and then quit Word (don't know if that last step
is necessary), all documents will have 'real-sized' inches, showing almost 7"
on the screen.
Tall Adjusted helps the Imagewriter emulate the spacing for the Laserwriter.
jonathan brecher
brecher@husc9.harvard.edualand@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) (05/07/91)
My first suggestion when the screen measures are different than 'real' measures is to check whether you are set up for a laserwriter or an imagewriter. The on-screen ruler bar is different... -=Alan -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Who, me? Nope, I didn't say that. Must have been my evil twin Who am I? aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu <Alan D.> Where am I? Brandeis University Box 3130 Waltham, MA 02254-9110 When am I? 9-5, M-F, Rain-Shine Why am I? Whaddyawant, a philosopher? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=