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From: Jeanne Hedge <jhedge@wwa.com>
To: ffml@fanfic.com <ffml@fanfic.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 4:26 PM
Subject: [FFML] [Info] Formatting Word

I write using Word 6.0, saving my fic as a DOC file.  When I want to mail
it out in the message body, I do the following:

1. Convert the entire fic to Courier 10 font/size.

2. Select the entire fic, then adjust the right margin to 70.

3. Save the fic as Text with Line Breaks.

This is very simple - it takes about 30 seconds to do.  You end up with a
file formatted with hard returns set for a 70 character right margin.

Then I copy/paste it into the email, or I use the Eudora option that lets
me send it as an attachment on my end but it comes out in the message body
on the receiving end.

Jeanne Hedge

I use Word 6.0 too.  It was cheap, and I don't much like later, more massive
versions of Word.  Actually, if I could go back to my beloved Wordperfect
5.1 (dos version) I would, but as they say, you can never go back...  ^_^

The trick I learned this week (yes, I did say "anyone with half a brain"
could figure this out, but I just figured it out.  Guess that means I just
barely have half a brain!  ^_^  ) :

After wordwrapping (I use Times New Roman and 12 pont text, but whatever
works) and before saving to a text file with line breaks, do this:

(All of this assumes you write using the tab key and do not put spaces
between paragraphs, which is how I've always written).

Go to "Edit -- Replace", then click on "special" and select the tab
character as what you're going to search on and replace.  Then go the the
next line (the "replace" line), and select "special" again, grab the "manual
line break" character, and add six or eight spaces to the end of that.

Do a Replace All -- global replace.  Everywhere in the document where you
have a tab (this assumes you write using the tab key), you will now have a
line break (seperating paragraphs from each other, and this assumes you
haven't already done so) and 6-8 spaces for an indent.  When you save to a
text file, with line breaks,  you will have a nicely formatted, spaced, and
indented text file.

Anyway, that's what works for me.

And my apologies again to Shunsuke, my post of early this morning sounded
like an attack and I didn't mean it to be.  He appeared to be saying fan
fiction writers should shun programs more complicated than notepad, while I
was attempting to say that anything can work, if you do it right.  What I do
agree on is that formatting your work nicely for the FFML is very important
and a matter of courtesy.

And now I'm going to shut up and post a story... the last chapter of Monkey
Head Butting.  ^_^

Miko!

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, "it
means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many
different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's
all."

(Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass)

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