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Re: Word text boundaries

Subject: Re: Word text boundaries
From: David Farbey <dfarbey -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:17:37 +0100

If you knew definitively all there was to know about the technical parameters of your DTP environment such as paper size, printer driver page sizes, printer physical characteristics and so on, you could then set page margins for the document that matched these parameters, and in that case displaying the text boundaries in Word would have some meaning. Unfortunately, in many commercial office environments these parameters are difficult to know, and almost impossible to control. Microsoft Word notoriously adjusts your document layout to match parameters it reads automatically from the printer driver for your system's default printer, usually without asking your permission.
Displaying text boundaries may give you an indication of where your margins are, but doesn't do much more than that.

Susan Hogarth wrote:

I'm looking at a document I recieved when I first started my job here
a few weeks ago which I tweaked and used as a model for others (it's a
resume). When I turn on 'text boundaries', much of the text is pushed
way out of the right boundary. It prints, but now where I thought it
looked "OK" I am thinking it looks crappy.

What si the use fo the 'text boundary if you can easily place/run text
outside of it? Just a suggestion? Most of the stuff I've turned up
while searching has been about how to turn text boundaries on and off,
and says 'it's really useful!', but doesn't explain HOW it's useful.
An example (titled 'using text boundaries'):

http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T0146_Using_Text_Boundaries.html

What *is* it used for? Should I never run text outside fo the boundary?

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