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Top margin vs First Line "At" position
-- When something ends€š something else begins... "Jezebel" wrote: The problem, I think, is that internally all Word's measurements are in points, with a precision of 0.5 point. Users who prefer millimetres to inches have always had to live with numbers that are slightly off -- but a) the differences are too small to matter, and b) as long as the value in question is handled consistently, it does no harm. But use points rather than inches if you want more precision in your margin settings. In this particular case, it's hard to see what your customer might be concerned about. Set the top margin so that the first line of text ends up where they want it, regardless of the actual numeric value used. Bear in mind that the 'at' position refers to the *top* of the text: the actual position depends on the font -- ie, a font with large ascenders will appear lower on the page. "chuckvorndran" wrote in message ... It is my understanding that the Cursor Position "At" value, shown in Word's status bar, is the vertical distance from the top edge of the page. Is it logical to assume that the "At" value for the very first line in a document created with Normal.dot should be the same value as that of the Top Margin? If the top margin value is 1", then the At value, when the cursor is on the very first line, is 1". When the top margin is 1.5" the corresponding At value for line one is also 1.5". But not all values of top margin from 0" through 1.9" produce the same "At" value for line one. Here are some observations. (I left out several observation where the values to agree.) 0" 0" 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.21 0.2 Word sets the 0.21 margin automatically from the 'Printable area' dialog box. 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.1 1.4 1.3 1.7 1.6 1.9 1.8 It appears that there may be some creative rounding going on here. It also appears that Word 2003 is not the first version to exhibit this phenomenon. In Word 2000, this discrepency seems to replicate precisely, in Word 97, the results are different at the low end, but still don't find agreement between the Top Margin and the first line's "At" value. This "At" property seems to be important to my customer, for reasons I am looking into. In this instance, the customer's Top margin specification is 0.7" and that yield a first line "At" value of 0.6". And that's consistent across all three tested Word versions. Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening? This customer is looking to switch its environment from WordPerfect 8 to Word2003. I suspect that this will pose some other unique formatting challenges as well. Thanks thank Jezebel your Answer i think you ccomplet clarifte the poit and it is understandabel regard i appreciate |
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