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"Character" drop-down list VERY small font. How to fix?

I have a document where the drop-down options in the "character" toolbar icon are teeny-tiny. On a new document, they're a much more reasonable size 9what I assume is the default). I can't understand why the font for the drop-down options in the old document are so much smaler than in the new. Both documents are using the same font in the main body as well as font size. It's very odd. The small text in the "Character" drop-down is at least 2-3 points smaller in the original document than in the "new" test document I created to compare.

I hope that makes sense. Anyway, any ideas?

BTW, it's a Word (2003 PC) document I've opened in Pages if that helps any.

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Posted on Aug 3, 2007 3:08 PM

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User profile for user: Peggy
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Posted on Aug 3, 2007 6:09 PM

I think your last sentence may be the answer,
BTW, it's a Word (2003 PC) document I've opened in Pages if that helps any.

but I can't explain it. I just put it down to typical Microsoft differences.

I just opened a couple of Word documents I got from work in Pages. The font sizes ranged from 8 to 12 in both Arial & Times Roman. I applied several of the character styles to existing text. Almost all the character styles were 12 pt so the text became larger in the document even though the display of the character style in the styles drawer looked much smaller.

Fonts tend to display larger on a PC than on a Mac due to the default being 96 dpi on a PC & 72 dpi on a Mac. On my work PC, the default size for Arial is 10 points in both Outlook & Word (2003). If I forward an e-mail to my Mac the type is actually too small to comfortably read.

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Aug 3, 2007 6:09 PM in response to TX Ciclista

I think your last sentence may be the answer,
BTW, it's a Word (2003 PC) document I've opened in Pages if that helps any.

but I can't explain it. I just put it down to typical Microsoft differences.

I just opened a couple of Word documents I got from work in Pages. The font sizes ranged from 8 to 12 in both Arial & Times Roman. I applied several of the character styles to existing text. Almost all the character styles were 12 pt so the text became larger in the document even though the display of the character style in the styles drawer looked much smaller.

Fonts tend to display larger on a PC than on a Mac due to the default being 96 dpi on a PC & 72 dpi on a Mac. On my work PC, the default size for Arial is 10 points in both Outlook & Word (2003). If I forward an e-mail to my Mac the type is actually too small to comfortably read.

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"Character" drop-down list VERY small font. How to fix?

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