Saturday, May 30, 2009

The reason why I started this blog

I was having trouble getting columns justified properly. They looked so choppy. The columns had huge gaps in the middle. I want my work to be easy to read.
So, I googled "MS Word justification space", I found some info:
Go to Tools/Options/Compatibility/Do Fully Justify like WordPerfect

After I read that I'm like, "What"?

Does anyone like Words default justification settings? Why does it have to be backward compatibility with WordPerfect to look somewhat professional?

Oh pleeaassee

File Size

Yesterday, I created a two page document with some photos. The document came out to 2.7MB!!!
I wonder why?
Then I re-created the same document and it came out to only 227 KB. This has me baffled.
All of the photos and stuff are the same size. With the first doc, I had done a lot of inserting photos and then deleting them.
Maybe that is why?
Who knows?
Whatever the reason, it's not appropriate to create a 2.7mb file when the same doc can be created in 227kb

Does anyone have blogs about MS Word and DTP?

I never thought I would blog about this:
I'm using MS Word to edit a newsletter.
The more I get involved with this, the more I learn and the more I learn, the more I need to remember.
MS Word is not the most organized program in the world.
As a matter of fact, it seems to have been built in bits and pieces.
When a program is written in bits and pieces, it requires more memorization of settings.

This is about customizing settings in order to write my newsletter.