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HELP NEEDED: i'm trying to scan a document into word, i've office 2000, when
the doc has been scanned, it size is smaller then the original doc in the
scanner. How do i keep the size of the doc in ms word the same as the doc in
the scanner.
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If you are scanning the document as a picture and inserting it in Word, then
it is inserted In Line With Text and hence constrained by Word's page
margins. Click on the graphic and change the text wrapping to Behind Text,
In Front of Text, or some other style and then go to Format Picture and
restore the size to 100%.

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"straypuss" wrote in message
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HELP NEEDED: i'm trying to scan a document into word, i've office 2000,

when
the doc has been scanned, it size is smaller then the original doc in the
scanner. How do i keep the size of the doc in ms word the same as the doc

in
the scanner.


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Thanks Suzanne, you were a great help, also that was a fast reply too. may be
you can help on this problem that i found on the scanner, if i scan an doc,
then either paste it into paint or word then print it. The printed backdround
of the copy comes out as grey instead of white. But if i scan straight to the
printer, the doc comes out ok with a white background.
Any thoughts on this.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you are scanning the document as a picture and inserting it in Word, then
it is inserted In Line With Text and hence constrained by Word's page
margins. Click on the graphic and change the text wrapping to Behind Text,
In Front of Text, or some other style and then go to Format Picture and
restore the size to 100%.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"straypuss" wrote in message
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HELP NEEDED: i'm trying to scan a document into word, i've office 2000,

when
the doc has been scanned, it size is smaller then the original doc in the
scanner. How do i keep the size of the doc in ms word the same as the doc

in
the scanner.



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straypuss shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:

Thanks Suzanne, you were a great help, also that was a fast reply
too. may be you can help on this problem that i found on the scanner,
if i scan an doc, then either paste it into paint or word then print
it. The printed backdround of the copy comes out as grey instead of
white. But if i scan straight to the printer, the doc comes out ok
with a white background. Any thoughts on this.


Most scanner software "cleans up" (can't describe it better) the scan
when scanning to printer - at least my HP scanner software did. I could
change a few settings about brightness, contrast, etc which resulted in
white(r) or grey(er) backgrounds.

When scanned to an image, you should do some experiments with changing
the contrast and the brightness of the scanned image before printing.
Your favorite image manipulation will do the job (I would recommend The
Gimp - http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html) but even with Word
you can do some basic manipulation. Right click on the image and click
on the second item from below. Don't know what it's called in English.
Anyway, there you can do something about brightness & contrast.
EXPERIMENT to find out what you need.

Good luck!

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Sounds like you are scanning in "color", rather than "Black & white"

John

"straypuss" wrote in message
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Thanks Suzanne, you were a great help, also that was a fast reply too. may
be
you can help on this problem that i found on the scanner, if i scan an
doc,
then either paste it into paint or word then print it. The printed
backdround
of the copy comes out as grey instead of white. But if i scan straight to
the
printer, the doc comes out ok with a white background.
Any thoughts on this.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you are scanning the document as a picture and inserting it in Word,
then
it is inserted In Line With Text and hence constrained by Word's page
margins. Click on the graphic and change the text wrapping to Behind
Text,
In Front of Text, or some other style and then go to Format Picture and
restore the size to 100%.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"straypuss" wrote in message
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HELP NEEDED: i'm trying to scan a document into word, i've office 2000,

when
the doc has been scanned, it size is smaller then the original doc in
the
scanner. How do i keep the size of the doc in ms word the same as the
doc

in
the scanner.







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I solved a similar problem by changing my printer properties to "borerless
printing" which gave me 100%

"JR" wrote:

Sounds like you are scanning in "color", rather than "Black & white"

John

"straypuss" wrote in message
...
Thanks Suzanne, you were a great help, also that was a fast reply too. may
be
you can help on this problem that i found on the scanner, if i scan an
doc,
then either paste it into paint or word then print it. The printed
backdround
of the copy comes out as grey instead of white. But if i scan straight to
the
printer, the doc comes out ok with a white background.
Any thoughts on this.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you are scanning the document as a picture and inserting it in Word,
then
it is inserted In Line With Text and hence constrained by Word's page
margins. Click on the graphic and change the text wrapping to Behind
Text,
In Front of Text, or some other style and then go to Format Picture and
restore the size to 100%.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"straypuss" wrote in message
...
HELP NEEDED: i'm trying to scan a document into word, i've office 2000,
when
the doc has been scanned, it size is smaller then the original doc in
the
scanner. How do i keep the size of the doc in ms word the same as the
doc
in
the scanner.





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