2008/12/2 Keith Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:30:20 +0000
> Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > > 2) a feature that WordPerfect had was "Make It Fit". This was
> > > wonderful for making a document fit a little (or as many) pages as
> > > you wanted (within reason!)
> > >
> > >
> > With File>Page Preview you can *view* as many pages as you like on
> > the screen, within reason :-) by selecting the Multi Pages option and
> > picking a layout. You can't *edit* in this mode though. Again,
> > perhaps this not what you meant in which case please explain.
>
> What the OP was asking for was a feature where the program edits the
> document to fit an exact number of pages. In WP for example, you might
> have a document that is 2 1/2 pages long and you might think that extra
> page is a waste of paper (or you might think it would look better to
> fit exactly 3 pages). You could click the "Make it fit" button and it
> would ask how long do you want it to be then it would automagically
> adjust font size and spacing to make it fit exactly the number of pages
> you request. I used to think it was pretty nifty also.
> >
>

Ah. Thank you. Yes, it does sound nifty. I've never used WP and have never
come across a similar feature anywhere else although I haven't used MS Word
since the "97" edition so maybe I'm out of date.

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Harold Fuchs
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