scaling

[Kimber]

what does the term scaling refer to when working with a
word document?

 

[Jonathan West]

Most commonly, when you insert a picture or object, the scaling refers to
how large it appears in the Word cocument compared to its original size.

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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Kimber,

what does the term scaling refer to when working with a
word document?

In what connection? And which version of word?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
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[Jay Freedman]

what does the term scaling refer to when working with a
word document?

Hi, Kimber,

I can think of at least three places in Word that use the terms "scale" or
"scaling". In general it refers to changing the size of something, but you
have to know which something you're talking about.

On the File > Print dialog, there's a dropdown marked "Scale to paper size".
You can choose to print the document on paper of a different size than the
one chosen in File > Page Setup, and the pages will be squeezed or stretched
as they're sent to the printer. I don't think this changes the size of
anything, it simply adjusts the page size temporarily, which may cause the
text to reflow.

In the Format > Font dialog, on the Character Spacing tab, there's a Scale
dropdown. Setting a value other than 100% will expand or squeeze the widths
of the characters without changing their heights. This is a substitute for
using "extended" and "condensed" fonts.

When you select a graphic and go to Format > Picture (or WordArt or ClipArt
or Text Box...), on the Size tab there are Scale settings for height and
width. You can adjust these separately, or you can check the Lock Aspect
Ratio box so that changing one scale factor automatically changes the other
factor proportionally.