Microsoft KB Archive/48556

Word: Text Converted to a Graphic Appears Off Center on Screen

PSS ID Number: Q48556 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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========================================================= 3.00 3.01 3.02 4.00 MACINTOSH kbgraphic SUMMARY ———————————————————————- The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0 == 

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When a table is made with the Courier monospace font, odd spacing may appear on the screen if that table is copied as a graphic, pasted, and then proportionally sized. The graphic doesn’t appear to be centered within the graphic box.

Note that it’s the graphic box that’s proportionally reduced; although the graphic does not appear properly within the box, the graphic does print properly, filling up the entire graphic frame.

Microsoft has been unable to reproduce the problem in Word version 5.0.

= MORE INFORMATION =

You can reproduce this effect with the following steps:


 * 1) Create five or six lines of text, or a table, placing a carriage return at the end of every line.
 * 2) Select the lines and apply the Courier font.
 * 3) Verify that you are showing paragraph marks. If not, do so by choosing Show Paragraph from the Edit menu (full menus).
 * 4) While the lines are still selected, copy them as a graphic by pressing COMMAND+OPTION+D.
 * 5) Paste the graphic over the original text or somewhere else in the document.
 * 6) Select the graphic and resize it by holding down the SHIFT key, clicking the handle at the lower-right corner of the graphic, and dragging the frame to its new proportions.

Extra space appears between the last column of characters in the graphic and the column of carriage return markers.

KBCategory: kbgraphic KBSubCategory: kbfont kbtable Additional reference words: macword macword5 3.00 3.01 3.02 4.00 5.00 ====================================================================== ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.