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RE: Word doubles font sizes in HTML files (and then doesn't)
Subject:RE: Word doubles font sizes in HTML files (and then doesn't) From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:18:35 -0500
[Thanks to Rob Little from the WORD-PC list, who posted the following
correct solution:]
This does indeed have to do with Zoom level, though not as one might think.
What happens if you open word first, go to "Web Layout", make sure you are
at 100%, then open the local saved page? For me, the page loads correctly.
If my Zoom isn't at 100% in Web Layout *before* I open the file, then things
go wrong. (In Office 2002 and before, getting the zoom levels to stick can
be, umm, a chore. That's why I recommend manually changing them before
loading the page).
The font sizes in the CSS style sheet have been specified in *pixels* not
*points*. Pixels are device dependent (and for Word, zoom dependent). I
need to do a bit more digging to see what the actual relationship is, but
the crux of the problem is Pixels being used instead of Points...
--rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goldstein, Dan
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:29 PM
> To: TECHWR-L (E-mail)
> Subject: Word doubles font sizes in HTML files (and then doesn't)
>
> 1. I save a page from the Web as a local HTML file (complete)
> using IE 6.
> 2. I open the local HTML file in Microsoft Word to find that
> all the fonts have doubled in size.
> 3. Without making any changes or saving, I close the file and
> open it again in Word.
> 4. All of the fonts are now the proper size.
> 5. The source code reads <font size="2"> and the IE View
> settings are constant.
> 6. There's a CSS reference, but it's constant, too, of course.
> 7. Word's zoom setting is constant.
> 8. IE 6, Word 2K, Win XP.
>
> Any clues?
