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I'd also recommend a font viewer utility, something like MooO Font viewer, that allows you to type in a phrase and see that phrase set in every font you have on your PC; sometimes just a small font change can get you the spacing you want, especially with typefaces with many standard variations, like Arial, Tacoma, Times, etc. Also if a font adjustment works, it may simplify editing, as Word is notorious for copying more than just characters and pasting more than just the words. This is easily seen in emails sent from Outlook, where editing is a nightmare; I often Ctrl+A from the document and Ctrl+V into notebook and save as txt, just to resolve mixed formatting problems, before editing them back into the document.
Thanks, I never knew what scale did, but I have used spacing more than once.
Speaking of font viewers, have your (or any of your readers) seen a font viewer that displays the new "OpenType" font features introduced with Office 2010?
I would like to use more of the "fancy font" features, but since only a few of the font sets include them it's hard to find which sets to use.
I would like a viewer that displays all of the options at once.
Speaking of font viewers, have your (or any of your readers) seen a font viewer that displays the new "OpenType" font features introduced with Office 2010?
I would like to use more of the "fancy font" features, but since only a few of the font sets include them it's hard to find which sets to use.
I would like a viewer that displays all of the options at once.
I've found that selecting text and using Ctrl+[ to "shrink" or Ctrl+] to "grow" selected text by one point to be very helpful. It's a quick fix to get text to fit on a line or within a text box, and it works in PowerPoint and Outlook, but not in Excel or in Visio. The down side is that it does alter the font size.
Thanks for mentioning it -- in a pinch, it might be all that's needed!
Would also be great for similar description in the Open Office. Lat week got the statistics that it takes up to 25% world market. Try to find the link and post later
Several letter spacing options are available in Word. One rule is whatever option you select, NEVER NEGLECT READABILITY. While that seems obvious, the many formatting options tempt to jeopardize that cardinal rule.
The font size, color, spacing, etc must be readable. If your reader must read a lot of documents, avoid unusual fonts that might be more suitable for a greeting cards or advertising. Fonts with serif (small ticks and curls at end of lines of the letter, e.g.: Times New Roman) look classic, but can cause problems when your reader begins to suffer fatigue from reading and the serif marks may blur and obscure clarity of each letter. Condensed space between letters can also provoke bluring. And if your document might be photocopied, and copied from photocopies, by the third or fourth generation or more, the condensed space between letters can turn into grey blurs.
Both serif and condensed spacing should be used sparingly especially if your reader might have difficulty with clarity of reading vision.
The font size, color, spacing, etc must be readable. If your reader must read a lot of documents, avoid unusual fonts that might be more suitable for a greeting cards or advertising. Fonts with serif (small ticks and curls at end of lines of the letter, e.g.: Times New Roman) look classic, but can cause problems when your reader begins to suffer fatigue from reading and the serif marks may blur and obscure clarity of each letter. Condensed space between letters can also provoke bluring. And if your document might be photocopied, and copied from photocopies, by the third or fourth generation or more, the condensed space between letters can turn into grey blurs.
Both serif and condensed spacing should be used sparingly especially if your reader might have difficulty with clarity of reading vision.
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