ID: Q197470
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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.
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 : word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprbLast Reviewed: February 12, 1999