Looking for post with cbs memos/windows version overlapping

[TechnicalEcstacy]

I did a search and couldn't find it. Wanted to show someone who needs convincing. Thanks

[Eva]

It's on Best of the Web, Opinion Journal today.

[hh007]

[preacher]

At this web site: http://www.manchuriancandidate2004.com/60minbusted.swf
there is an animation of comparisons of the CBS document in their
"expose' " about Bush's NG Records and the same document using
"MS Word" word processor.

Once you go to that site it takes about 1 minute for the program to run.

[TechnicalEcstacy]

That did it. cool. convinced.

[Ichneumon]

That did it. cool. convinced.

I spent a few hours tonight playing with doing an MS-Word reconstruction of one of the *other* CBS memos (the "report for your physical" memo). I found that all I had to do was bring up a blank document in MS-Word, use the *default* font (Times New Roman), change the font size to 12 (default is 10), and change the left/right margins to one inch (which is extremely standard for typewritten letters), and then just type in the text.

One of the most striking things is that the line breaks occur *automatically* at *exactly* the same spots as the CBS copy of the memo. On one line, an actual typewriter would *clearly* have prompted the user (via the end of line "bell") to carriage-return earlier. But MS-Word could squeeze in two more characters without exceeding the right margin, so it kept the "14" of a date on the end of the line and wrapped the rest of the date to the next line (also, a secretary would have carriage-returned before the 14, as it's bad form to break up a date onto two lines).

And the few indented lines lined up *precisely* in accordance with the CBS version when I used the standard MS-Word default tab settings.

The line spacings, the line breaks, the character positions, the character shapes, the superscript size and position -- *everything* -- lined up pixel-perfect when I overlaid the "print preview" of my document over the CBS version.