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Old October 3rd, 2007, 06:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Alex Ferenstein
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Default Turn off all kinds of wrapping in MS Word 2003

In order to add comments to a long text printout, I am chosing to use MS
Word 2003. (Suggestions for alternative are welcome)
The problem is that I cannot turn off wrapping of text at all. The best I
can do is Options-View-Wrap to Window. However, this isn't good enough...
Is there a way to turn off the wrapping so and use horizontal scroll bar
(for the purpose it was designed for)?


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Old October 4th, 2007, 12:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Jay Freedman
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Default Turn off all kinds of wrapping in MS Word 2003

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:51:05 -0400, "Alex Ferenstein"
wrote:

In order to add comments to a long text printout, I am chosing to use MS
Word 2003. (Suggestions for alternative are welcome)
The problem is that I cannot turn off wrapping of text at all. The best I
can do is Options-View-Wrap to Window. However, this isn't good enough...
Is there a way to turn off the wrapping so and use horizontal scroll bar
(for the purpose it was designed for)?


No. What you want is a text editor, not a word processor.

Try using NotePad or, if you want something programmable, any of the
"programmer's text editor" programs. I favor UltraEdit, but there are
lots of them.

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Old October 4th, 2007, 05:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Alex Ferenstein
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Default Turn off all kinds of wrapping in MS Word 2003

Wow, that's really useless advice. I was only asking about MS Word 2003.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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No. What you want is a text editor, not a word processor.



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Old October 4th, 2007, 05:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
CyberTaz
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Default Turn off all kinds of wrapping in MS Word 2003

Re-read your own post -

You asked if text wrap could be turned off in Word 2003 & the reply was No,
along with a brief explanation of why.

You stated that "Suggestions for alternative are welcome", and same was
offered.
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"Alex Ferenstein" wrote in message
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Wow, that's really useless advice. I was only asking about MS Word 2003.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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No. What you want is a text editor, not a word processor.





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Old October 15th, 2007, 07:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Robert M. Franz (RMF)
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Default Turn off all kinds of wrapping in MS Word 2003

Hi Alex

Alex Ferenstein wrote:
Wow, that's really useless advice. I was only asking about MS Word 2003.


I didn't think the Word 2003 advice "set the zoom to 1% with wrap to
window on" was more to your liking ...

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Old October 17th, 2007, 04:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Beth Melton
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Default Turn off all kinds of wrapping in MS Word 2003

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
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Hi Alex

Alex Ferenstein wrote:
Wow, that's really useless advice. I was only asking about MS Word 2003.


I didn't think the Word 2003 advice "set the zoom to 1% with wrap to
window on" was more to your liking ...


LOL Funny how when some folks don't get the answer they are looking for,
especially when it's the only answer, they blame your advice.

~Beth Melton


 




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