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ASL SOFTWARE
 
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UK printed end of year forms are designed to be printed at 10 characters per
inch and 6 lines per inch. I cannot find a font that covers this under
Windows even though I can happily specify this (and other) size under DOS.

How can I set my printout to line up exactly?

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CyberTaz
 
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Unfortunately those typewriter-based specs are founded on 'archaic'
mono-spaced (or 'fixed width') technology, which you can obviously not
change. Most of the fonts used on the PC today are proportionally spaced,
but there are some which might fill the bill, Courier (not Courier New) 12
pt, single spaced, for one.

I'm sure other suggestions will come in as well.

Good Luck |:)



On 10/17/05 6:20 PM, in article
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UK printed end of year forms are designed to be printed at 10 characters per
inch and 6 lines per inch. I cannot find a font that covers this under
Windows even though I can happily specify this (and other) size under DOS.

How can I set my printout to line up exactly?


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ASL SOFTWARE
 
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I can print correctly in Word using courier new Exactly 12 point, now I need
to use the Exactly option in Visual Basic

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Unfortunately those typewriter-based specs are founded on 'archaic'
mono-spaced (or 'fixed width') technology, which you can obviously not
change. Most of the fonts used on the PC today are proportionally spaced,
but there are some which might fill the bill, Courier (not Courier New) 12
pt, single spaced, for one.

I'm sure other suggestions will come in as well.

Good Luck |:)



On 10/17/05 6:20 PM, in article
, "ASL SOFTWARE" ASL
wrote:

UK printed end of year forms are designed to be printed at 10 characters per
inch and 6 lines per inch. I cannot find a font that covers this under
Windows even though I can happily specify this (and other) size under DOS.

How can I set my printout to line up exactly?



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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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Use Courier New 12 pt with line spacing set to Exactly 12 pts.

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"ASL SOFTWARE" ASL wrote in message
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UK printed end of year forms are designed to be printed at 10 characters

per
inch and 6 lines per inch. I cannot find a font that covers this under
Windows even though I can happily specify this (and other) size under DOS.

How can I set my printout to line up exactly?


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ASL SOFTWARE
 
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Wonderful! Thank you!

I can sort the problem in Word now, all I need to do is get my programmer to
be able to use the 'exactly' option under Visual Basic and I will be able to
sleep nights.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Use Courier New 12 pt with line spacing set to Exactly 12 pts.

--
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.

"ASL SOFTWARE" ASL wrote in message
...
UK printed end of year forms are designed to be printed at 10 characters

per
inch and 6 lines per inch. I cannot find a font that covers this under
Windows even though I can happily specify this (and other) size under DOS.

How can I set my printout to line up exactly?





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Jay Freedman
 
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Default print at 10 cpi and 6 lpi

Tell the programmer to use these two lines:

ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceExactly
ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.LineSpacing = 12

If the programmer is really using Visual Basic (the stand-alone
language outside of Word) instead of Visual Basic for Applications
(the macro language built into Word), then you need to know that the
numeric value of the constant wdLineSpaceExactly is 4.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:50:04 -0700, ASL SOFTWARE
wrote:

Wonderful! Thank you!

I can sort the problem in Word now, all I need to do is get my programmer to
be able to use the 'exactly' option under Visual Basic and I will be able to
sleep nights.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Use Courier New 12 pt with line spacing set to Exactly 12 pts.

--
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.

"ASL SOFTWARE" ASL wrote in message
...
UK printed end of year forms are designed to be printed at 10 characters

per
inch and 6 lines per inch. I cannot find a font that covers this under
Windows even though I can happily specify this (and other) size under DOS.

How can I set my printout to line up exactly?



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