As Suzanne said, page breaks change by printer, program, etc.

In particular, MS did something to shift the metrics (I think) from Word X
to Word 2004, so Word 2004 has noticeably different page breaks from earlier
versions of MacWord. Nothing much you can do about it--you could try
changing the line spacing from double spaced to exactly 23 pt or something
and see if you prefer that.

For future reference, you might be interested in knowing there are
Mac-specific newsgroups as well.

See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel,
and other MS programs for the Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups


On 11/2/05 4:15 PM, "dannybex" wrote:

I have a screenplay that I wrote using styles set up when I was using
Word 6.0.

I recently got a MacG5 and Word 2004 version 11.2. The screenplay used
to run 111 pages. On the new computer it opens up at 120 pages -- more
space between the letters, and more space between the lines. Not good.

So I tried to do a "Compatibility" check. It says "to ensure that this
document looks the same on computers running Word 97 or later, change
the compatibility options to Microsoft Word 2000-2004 and X in the
preferences dialogue box.

I do that, but nothing changes. If I click on any of the list of
options, the "recommended options" which was set as above, changes to
"Custom".

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Dan


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