David J Brown wrote:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
> Stephen Crawshaw <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> .pdf
>>
> Or WordPerfect - it specifically reformats documents when the
> printer is changed. I do remember that Word would remind you
> when printing set outside printer margins does it not still do so?
>
There would obviously have been better places to start from, but given a
large number of existing Word files, and the (unfortunate but true) fact
that the only common word processor across Fife practices is Word, a
switch to WordPerfect is unlikely to be feasible.
Yes, Word does warn about printing outside the margins, but adjustment
of the margins usually results in the pagination in the middle of
tables, etc.
What I'd like to know, if anyone has done the work already, is how big
do the margins have to be to allow an A4 page to be printed on any
printer likely to be found in a practice? If I could pass this set of
margins back to the Rheumatology unit for them to apply to all their
documents (reformatted as required) I'd feel I was getting somewhere.
Conversion to .pdf format at that stage would avoid the risk of virus
transfer via Word, whereas premature conversion to .pdf would leave the
margin issue unresolved.
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Michael
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