Dear Nat, A visit to your purchasing department might reveal the cost of paper used by your organisation in a year -- 2 % of that amount might be substantial!
Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2005-03-22 04.32, Nat Hager III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've set mine to 25 mm (even) for years, and probably drives everyone > nuts when they pull my documents up on their machine with margins set > for 0.984 inches. But I've never had a proposal kicked out for margin > violations, and I think I'd make a federal case if they did. > > I probably get an extra 2% word count that way. > > Nat > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Elwell > Sent: Monday, 2005 March 21 11:17 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:32531] Re: Style manuals (was CNN uses primarily metric > in article) > > > At 20 03 05, 08:45 PM, Pat Naughtin wrote: >> Some time ago, After I changed the default settings in MS Word to >> millimetres, I noticed that all new pages were routinely set at the >> default for page margins (25.4 top and bottom and 31.7 millimetres on >> each side). >> >> I now routinely reset these to 20 millimetres all round and it took a >> while for me to realise that this meant that I was getting an increase >> in the usable paper that I calculate to be up by just under 25 %. >> >> This could add to quite large savings by any group or company that uses >> a lot of paper. > > I don't know about Word, but in WordPerfect you can set a "default > style" that sets the margins on all new documents automatically. I use > 20 mm margins and 10 mm tabs on everything. > > Jim > > > > Jim Elwell, CAMS > Electrical Engineer > Industrial manufacturing manager > Salt Lake City, Utah, USA > www.qsicorp.com >
