On Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:16:10 -0500 (EST) Goosed wrote:

: On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Andy Skuse wrote:
: 
: >BTW: A tip - In Word, using the Smart Quotes (curly-shaped quotation marks)
: >often doesn't translate when you paste your chapter to a Eudora message, and
: >your chapter may have its quotation marks disappear. To deal with this, go
: >to "Tools", then "Options" in Word. Click on the tab lablelled "Auto Format"
: >and look at the bottom left for three check boxes under "Replace". Make sure
: >the box labelled "Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" is *not* checked. Click
: >on OK. The location of this feature may vary with different versions of Word.
: 
: Here's a tip, for those of you working in Word:  When you go to save the
: story as text, change the font of the whole thing (CTRL-A to select all
: of the text, I think) to Courier 10.  It's a proportional font.  Then
: set the right margin to 1 inch.  Leave the left margin at its default
: setting.  Also, set tabs to 0.67 inches.  Then save as MS-DOS text with
: line breaks, and wa-lah.  Perfectly formatted text every time.  8)

Here's another tip for those of you who use Word:

Shoot yourself through the head - or alternately get a decent
computer with a decent OS and a decent text editor.  Either is
less painful.  Less painful for those of us, who try to decipher
your fics, that is.  :p


Sebastian (I am kidding of course - Shooting yourself is in fact
           slightly more painful than MS Word.)
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