On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than Times,
Bruce, They either use Times or the default san-serif face as a body text font. Ugly and hard to read. It has fascinated me how those in the Microsoft world stick with whatever defaults are set by the OS and applications on it and never think to change them. About 20 years ago I worked for a consulting company and we were quite progressive: we all had PCs running DOS and WordPerfect on our desks. I immediately changed the WP display from bright white on blue to grey on black (much easier on my eyes). Others would walk by and comment, "Wow! How'd you do that?" Of course, no one changed a darn thing on their machines, but they sure specified exactly how a document had to be formatted before it left the office. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Rich
