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From: jplummer@umich.edu (Jon Robertson Plummer)
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Subject: Answer: Why does ASCII art look screwed up when I dl?
Date: 23 Oct 1994 16:05:18 -0500
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Robert Kennedy (kennedy@cam.org) had this to say:
= When I download, for instance, ascii art files from the ftp.mcs.com
= archive and save them as MS Word documents and then try to look at them,
= they come out totally screwed up.
= Also, copying them from the newsgroup and pasting them into another
= document--or even opening them in the clipboard produces the same result.

Try changing the font to a monospaced font such as Courier, Courier New, 
Video Terminal Screen, Terminal, or FixedSys.  Since ASCII art is done 
in/for environments that assume monospaced fonts and 
MSWord/Write/Clipboard/etc. default to proportionally spaced fonts.

Good luck.
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