[Ham-Computers] Formatting Word pad Document

[Rolly (W7DGX) & Sandra Goodspeed]

On my machine, the word pad margins are 1.25 inches left and right and 1.0
inches top and bottom. The default justification is to the left.



With normal 8½-inch wide paper that gives you six inches between margins,
which should satisfy your 60 character line. However at 10 characters per
inch, the paper is 85 characters wide. The present margins settings, while
giving you a 60-character line at 10 characters per inch, will give you 12.5
characters at each edge.



To change the margins, use the following menu items:

File >> Page Setup

and change the margins as you desire.



On my machine, wrapping of text when the right margin is reached is not the
default setting. Instead the default setting is wrap at screen edge. The
text runs on and on past the right margin. Wrapping of the text does not
happen until the right side of the screen is reached.



Using the menu items



View >> Options >> Rich Text



you can select "wrap to margins". When this was done, all the text aligned
properly to the margins.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Formatting Word pad Document


>
>
> Hello All,
>
> FYI: I am totally blind. Hence the following questions.
>
> Using Word Pad I am curious as to what the default settings are for:
>
> 1. paragraph indention
>
> 2. left margin
>
> 3. right margin
>
> 4. justification
>
> Here is what I want, how do I set it? I realize this is probably displayed
on
> the ruler, but I am having problems 'reading' the markings there.
>
> I want a sixty column line, left margin of ten, right margin of ten.
paragraph
> indention of five.
>
> The font is ten characters per inch.
>
> The top and bottom margins should be one inch.
>
> i think this should yield a maximum of fifty-four lines, as sixty is the
> vertical.
>
> When I 'look' at the current menu settings for a paragraph, it is all set
to
> zero and left justified.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Duane W8DBF
>
>
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