> Also, even if you do get a document to look
> the way you want on your computer, it's an
> entirely different thing to have it appear
> that way on someone else's computer
> (particularly your printer's). Most likely,
> if you give a printer a Word doc to print,
> it will come back to you looking very
> different from what you thought.

As far as I can figure, the biggest reason the documents generated in Microsoft products look different is the printer driver.

Change the printer driver on an existing document and see how it looks on the screen. It will look different.

After the printer driver, the next reason it looks different is any body's guess. That is, sometimes, even with the same printer driver and default page and printer set ups, the document can still look different, although, only slightly.

One possible reason could be the slight variation in OS version numbers for the same Main Version. Win98 build 1.0000002 vs Win 98 build 1.0000003.

Mayhaps it is just another one of those things we have grown to accept (under pain and torment) from the beast that is Microsoft. :o)

Michael Ross