Article ID: 214170
Article Last Modified on 12/6/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q214170
SYMPTOMS
Microsoft Word cannot display all aspects of true WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") all the time, because the screen resolution is much lower than the printer resolution. Words may appear compressed in certain views due to the difference in resolution.
NOTE: This is a display problem only. The text is printed correctly.
CAUSE
The positions of words on the page and line lengths are exactly preserved in Word.
In addition, Word performs smooth letter spacing rather than strictly positioning every character according to its exact position on the printer.
Additional query words: scrunched truncated truncate garbled fixed width preportional
Keywords: kbprb KB214170
