>> The answer is pretty simple, Kirk. Work in Word at 125% or 150%. That's what
>> I do (125%), At a high resolution, 10 pt look too tiny on screen. But 10 pt
>> is often better for printing than 12pt anyway, so 10pt @ 125% is just right
>> all ways round.
> 
> No, it's not. I write mainly manuscripts, which follow very particular
> guidelines for type setting (12 pt. Courier, never Courier New,
> double-spaced, left aligned). I also don't like 10 pt. text -- it's too
> small on paper, and it forces me to zoom Word, which sometimes doesn't track
> the space between words perfectly. It's another annoying workaround for
> something that shouldn't need a workaround. Why should I have to work in a
> way that I don't like to work to accommodate the incomplete functionality of
> the email authoring portion of Entourage?
>
> Why DO fonts change sizes between Word and Entourage? That just makes no
> sense.

I think the problem you're describing is the classic DPI difference of 72
for the Mac and 96 for the PC (which turns out to be a ratio of 1.33). Word
documents composed on Windows at 100% look best on the Mac viewed at 75%,
and Word documents composed on the Mac at 100% look best on Windows at 133%.

This text size discrepancy caused by DPI differences applies to e-mail as
well. I know we did a bunch of work in Entourage 10.1.4 to try to best
accommodate users sending mail between Entourage and PC clients like
Outlook. Taking a look at how the Word:Send To:HTML Recipient works, it
looks like we are properly setting the point size in the source. It might
appear bigger if the HTML renderer is displaying at 96 DPI, which I think IE
does by default.

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