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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh], post: 6852630"] Comments inline... Yeah, the paragraphs to which the anchors are attached move, but the measurements stay the same. That's what produces this problem. Print Preview is the only one you can trust. Word has three "Views" of a document, each one using progressively more computer power to generate. "Normal" view is a power-saving view good for fast editing on large documents. It's totally dedicated to text creation, and also reveals a lot of the control characters so you can see what you are doing. Most of us long document pilots use that almost exclusively because it's so fast and stable. But it doesn't even pretend to be accurate. Print Layout view is the next one up. This uses the real font outlines to generate the shape of the characters and hides non-printing characters. It uses quite a bit more power so it's slower, and more likely to crash in large complex documents. It's about 99 per cent WYSIWYG. Print Preview, on the other hand, is 100 per cent accurate. It actually "prints" the document to the screen, using the printer driver you are going to be using. It is 100 per cent accurate, but its power demands are outrageous. You "can" edit in Print Preview mode, by clicking the Magnify button. Try not to: word is working so hard in this view that crashes are likely. So it's a trade-off: In Print Preview, you will see the picture exactly where it is going to land on the page, but long documents move like molasses in winter and your CPU fans will deafen you! Yeah: JPEGs will do this. As I said: each of the compressed formats involves a trade-off. In the case of JPEG, the trade off is between resolution and colour. Colour wins. To get good resolution out of a JPEG, you have to lift your quality rating above 80. Well, you're not :-) This is not a "problem", it's a "feature" :-) JPEGs enable you to choose between small and fuzzy, or big and crisp. The power is in your hands. Try PNG: that's a non-lossy compression. It will be up to twice the size, but you don't loose anything. Hope this helps -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 [/QUOTE]

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