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NPPD1217

This is probably an old question, but I am currently
redesigning the forms for my police department and to save
time I am attempting to work on them both at home and
work. OK, the problem is, I do the form at work and then
email it to myself so that I can retrieve it when I get
home. When I open it at home the format is goofy and what
fit on a page at work doesn't on my home pc. How do I make
it so what I see at work is what I see at home and the
reverse. If I do work at home and retrieve it at work I
have the same problem... Little help please ????
 
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Jay Freedman

NPPD1217 said:
This is probably an old question, but I am currently
redesigning the forms for my police department and to save
time I am attempting to work on them both at home and
work. OK, the problem is, I do the form at work and then
email it to myself so that I can retrieve it when I get
home. When I open it at home the format is goofy and what
fit on a page at work doesn't on my home pc. How do I make
it so what I see at work is what I see at home and the
reverse. If I do work at home and retrieve it at work I
have the same problem... Little help please ????
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The problem is explained at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm.

Basically, Word uses the active printer driver to lay out the page,
and moving to a machine with a different printer selected will usually
change what you see -- sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

On your home machine, install a copy of the printer driver for the
same printer you use at work. You don't have to have the actual
hardware, just the software. Select that printer in the Print dialog
when you work on that document, and you should get a lot closer to the
same layout. (The fonts installed on the machine may also make a
difference.)
 
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