The reasoning only *suggests* that it is not the video display driver. It
doesn't *prove* it - because of the way different applications use the
screen driver to display fonts. It could equally be the printer driver as
Word (but not Notepad) works hand in glove with the current printer driver
to position text in the Word display area.
Unless you would care to enlighten us, I cannot see what practical
difference a one pixel change would have on a Word document, and if such
positioning is so crucial then Word is not the best tool for this type of
work. DTP would be closer to the mark.
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Peter Olcott wrote:
(1) I can't try it on another computer. The only other computer that
I have is identical to this one.
(2) The reasoning that I provided proves that it can't be the display
driver. (3) I am talking about a difference that is small enough that
you can't see it unless you look at the pixels enlarged sixteen times.
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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While I don't know the answer to that particular question, I think
that we CAN rule it out as being an MS Word issue as you suggest
because it does not happen in MS Word for either Suzanne, JoAnn, or
the two different computers on which I have tried it.
As a result, the only conclusion that I can draw is that it is
something peculiar to your setup - hardware or drivers.
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"Peter Olcott" wrote in message
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"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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I've had issues with Publisher that didn't occur in other programs
and they were video driver issues. And before you say that you are
talking about Word,not Publisher, those two program do share
certain "quirks". I will ask again - did you look at the file on
another computer?
*IF* it appears on that computer as well, then it could be a
ligature.*IF* it doesn't, they it could be a video driver issue.
Sometimes you need to rule out a setting on your computer before
you go blaming the program.
How could it possibly be a video driver issue if notepad on the same
computer, and Non-italic in the same font on the same computer does
not have this problem?
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"Peter Olcott" wrote in message
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"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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I'd still suggest updating your video drivers.
I am 100% certain that it is not a video driver issue. Notepad
does not do this MS Word does this. This proves that it is not a
video driver issue. I think that it might be a ligature issue. It
occurs in Times New Roman-Bold-Italic-24 Point. It does not occur
in the Non-Italic form of this same font.
Does this problem appear on other computers?
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"Peter Olcott" wrote in message
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It is not a display driver issue, it is an MS Word issue. When
I do the same thing in notepad, the characters are evenly
spaced. I must have an answer to this problem, it is not
something that I can ignore. "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote in message
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If it's a display issue only, then it's probably a video
driver issue or an
issue with the display font. If it doesn't print that way,
then I would consider it not worth worrying about.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Peter Olcott" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I'm not seeing that here, but possibly an AutoCorrect entry
has been set
up
to substitute an ff ligature for two f's. This character is
not present
in
It is working this way in a new blank document. I am
referring to the on-screen image, not the printed image. This
difference can only be seen when a screen capture is made and
the pixels are examined.
most fonts (though some do contain the fi and fl ligatures),
but it is
available in "expert" fonts and possibly in OpenType fonts
(though not
necessarily accessible directly in Word's Symbol dialog. You
might try
asking this question in the
microsoft.public.word.printingfonts NG. Note that two of the NGs
you're posting to (.word and
.word.general) have been deprecated on the Microsoft server
and so will not be propagated to
some other news servers.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Peter Olcott" wrote in message
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Why is it when I type fff in Bold Italic 24 Point Times New
Roman that the first
two letters are closer together than the last two letters?
Thanks