Word Documents on the Web

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grimpixie

Greetings all

The organisation I work for needs to make some Word documents availabl
for users to download from our website - so that they can type int
them, print off the finished product and mail them back to us.

However, we have been receiving many complaints that when the document
are downloaded, the fonts are wrong, or the tables go screwy or th
margins are set too tight for them to print on their ancient deskjet
etc etc

Anyway, I was wondering if there are any standards set for making Wor
documents accessable to as wide an audience as possible? Or if anyon
could suggest another clever solution to the problem??

Thanks
Gri
 
My guess would be to use margins of at least 1.5cm all the way round
Only use the common fonts like Arial, Times New Roman. If you're usin
fonts that your users PC doesn't have then the document will pick u
fonts of it's own from the user's PC.

I think that at least 1.5cm margins should be enough for ol
printers!!

HT
 
Well old DeskJets had an unprintable 1.67cm at the bottom - but that's
really old technology now! 1.5cm should suffice 99.99% of the population.
And I agree - use standard Windows fonts.

Terry

message :
: My guess would be to use margins of at least 1.5cm all the way round.
: Only use the common fonts like Arial, Times New Roman. If you're using
: fonts that your users PC doesn't have then the document will pick up
: fonts of it's own from the user's PC.
:
: I think that at least 1.5cm margins should be enough for old
: printers!!
:
: HTH
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Also, set your save options to save using only features available in Word
97. That might help with the tables. Word 2000 and above allow nested
tables, which are not available in Word 97. So, tables drawn in the later
version will almost always be scrambled by Word 97. Inserting tables, rather
than drawing them, might help with this, as well.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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