Peering through font Windows

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Publishers of microcomputer software for the DOS platform have not offered many options for high-quality laser-printed type. With the advent of Microsoft Inc's Windows 3.0 in 1990, third-party vendors offered 'patches' to the problem. Before Windows 3.0, microcomputer-based users used fonts for output, not creativity. What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) format seemed as if it were in the distant future. Microsoft's TrueType, a font-scaling technology for Windows 3.1, will be due in late 1991. TrueImage is TrueType's accompanying page description language that is actually a superset of PostScript. TrueImage-TrueType is an open standard, unlike Adobe's proprietary PostScript page description language.

Software, Design and construction, Laser printers, Computer fonts, GUI, Graphical user interfaces, Laser Printer, Microcomputer, Windowing, Font Package, Page Description Language, Character Graphics, Microsoft Windows 3.0 (GUI), Truetype (Computer font)

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Formatting on automatic

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To save time when preparing a table in which the data is continually changing while the format remains the same, data imported from Microsoft Excel will be automatically formatted by Microsoft Word's Print Merge function. The merging technique requires the user to first create a data file, save it as both an Excel file and as a text file with a different name, then create a merge document by defining columns for the table. Each field is then formatted, Print Merge is selected from the file menu and a new table is created. Finally, adjust the tab stops to align all the columns properly.

Usage, MSFT, Microsoft Word (Word processing software), Spreadsheet software, Microsoft Excel (Spreadsheet software), Tables (Furniture), Word processing, Merging, Tutorial, Tables, Format

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