OFFICE X issues

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I cannot change the homepage preference in Safari. More precisely, I can change the
preferences, but the applications automatically change them back.
Preferences in other applications, Word for example, behave normally.

Display in Word
Given this machine's relatively small, but high-resolution monitor, standard
12-point type appears very small on screen in Word. The logical answer is
using Word's Zoom feature. However, when I do, the letter spacing becomes
demented. Its psychokerning. Big gaps appear between letters. Gaps disappear
between words. It seems entirely random‹no pattern or consistency. It
becomes impossible to know what's correct and what isn't. To some degree,
this problem is font-related. It's far worse, for example, in Helvetica than
it is in Ariel. But it's present in every font I've tried. This problem
makes it impossible to ensure file accuracy on screen. Moreover, as with
Word 98, Word X isn't WYSIWYG. Line breaks and tabbing on print-outs do not
match line breaks on screen, making proofing and correction more difficult
and time-consuming.

E-mail:
Most of the letters I send result in an error message (The server returned
the following error Unable to add message to IMAP mailbox. The
corresponding local folder will be used instead.) I do not know what, if
anything, this means.
 
M

Mickey Stevens

I cannot change the homepage preference in Safari. More precisely, I can
change the
preferences, but the applications automatically change them back.
Preferences in other applications, Word for example, behave normally.

Display in Word
Given this machine's relatively small, but high-resolution monitor, standard
12-point type appears very small on screen in Word. The logical answer is
using Word's Zoom feature. However, when I do, the letter spacing becomes
demented. Its psychokerning. Big gaps appear between letters. Gaps disappear
between words. It seems entirely random‹no pattern or consistency. It
becomes impossible to know what's correct and what isn't. To some degree,
this problem is font-related. It's far worse, for example, in Helvetica than
it is in Ariel. But it's present in every font I've tried. This problem
makes it impossible to ensure file accuracy on screen. Moreover, as with
Word 98, Word X isn't WYSIWYG. Line breaks and tabbing on print-outs do not
match line breaks on screen, making proofing and correction more difficult
and time-consuming.
Click to expand...

Go to Word -> Preferences, click the "General" button, and then check
"Enable Quartz Text Smoothing". Click OK.

If you don't see that option, download and install the latest Office X
updates, which are 10.1.2, 10.1.4, and 10.1.5 (10.1.3 is unnecessary).
They¹re available from Microsoft.
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#OfficeX>

If that doesn't fix it, open System Preferences, click General, and change
the "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes __ and smaller" pop-up to a
small number like 8. Re-launch Word and see if it is any better.

You might want to ask in the Word newsgroup
E-mail:
Most of the letters I send result in an error message (The server returned
the following error Unable to add message to IMAP mailbox. The
corresponding local folder will be used instead.) I do not know what, if
anything, this means.
Click to expand...

Click the IMAP server icon in the Folder List, and click Update List. Then
go to Tools -> Accounts, open your IMAP account, and click the "Advanced"
tab. Click the pop-up next to "Store sent messages in this IMAP folder",
click "Choose". Re-select your Sent Items folder and click OK.
 
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