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One of the first things you must do when you plan your page layout is determine how wide a column of text will be on the page. In typography, there is an old rule of thumb that the column width should be no more than 1.5 times the width of the alphabet, in the font you are using. Thus, you need to determine your font before you pick a column width. When you have done this, you can type the alphabet one and a half times, all uppercase, to determine the best column width. Any wider, and the reader's eyes tend to wander as they are reading.
Tip #982 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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