By the way, you can also adjust spacing above and below paragraphs with the same style you use to set font size. (This is for paragraph and list styles. There are also character styles, but they do not control spacing.) Best practice in Word is to set spacing above a paragraph, heading or list item to a figure that's proportional to the font. Not the same, but proportional. And, instead of using two hard returns between paragraphs for spacing, the spacing is set with the style. By doing this, Word documents are far more likely to paginate properly. And, for a blind user, it's a way of having far more control over all the formatting in the document. I can come far closer to producing a document that's well formatted without sighted assistance by applying styles consistently throughout the document.
This was a big change for me since I cut my teeth in computer word processing using Wordstar and WordPerfect circa 1988. That sure dates me! Those programs and many others still in use today use empty paragraphs (hard returns) to format documents. In many ways Word is inferior to WordPerfect (the tables and master document features are still broken after 20 years), but the Word approach to font size and paragraph spacing is superior, especially for those of us who cannot see how their documents appear on the page. Structure and consistent use of styles helps us produce good documents. Richard Petty ILRU at TIRR Memorial Hermann Phone: 713.520.0232 - Ex. 122 Fax: 713.520.5785 E-Mail: [email protected] Skype: richard.petty1 -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 7:18 PM To: 'Robert Ringwald' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: OT Question About Word Hi Robert, I'm really behind in reading my list messages. I'm surprised more blind people don't ask questions about what "point size" means in Word. Yes, as the number gets bigger the font gets bigger. at 72 point the letters are one inch high (that's very high). a normal size would be 10 or 12 point. When you apply styles to selected text, one of the things they can change is the font size; so if you make text heading1 style for instance, it will be larger than normal text. If you want to specify just the font size, you select the text just as if you were going to apply a style to it, but in 2003 you then use the format menu with alt-o, then press F for the font choice in this menu. you can change anything about the font in here, and one of the boxes is size. An app I've written was named MS Word, and it's now changing it's name to Word Advanced Features. One of the things it can do for you is to tell you the size of your font, as you move through the document, and you come to a line where the font size is different. I think this is more convenient than the WE way, which requires you to keep checking to see what the font is, or to always here it all the time. You can download the app at: http://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Apps/App_Details/?scriptid=1237 to try it out. It's help has been rewritten, and you should read the help for the app. you can't see the help to read it though unless you have started Word running. hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: Robert Ringwald [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:11 PM To: GWMicro List Subject: OT Question About Word 1. Regarding the size of print. As the numbers go up, does the print get larger or smaller. 2. In Word 2003, where can I find the place to adjust the size of print? --Bob Ringwald www.ringwald.com Fulton Street Jazz Band 530/ 642-9551 Office 916/ 806-9551 Cell Amateur (Ham) Radio K6YBV Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat miner. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
