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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: JohnM who wrote (50070)1/25/2002 3:10:37 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
But I always have that problem and, each time I report it, no one else does, so I've considered myself an outlyer on this one.

My guess is that this is a font size issue in combination with to get the fixed format tables. If I save the source for the page and open it in a new browser, the page will respond to a CTRL-Wheel font size change from my mouse, which the regular page does not. For smaller fonts, the window reconfigures within its borders as it should, but when the font gets large enough, then it shifts to horizontal scroll, although it is not apparent why it has needed to do so. E.g., in my normal SI display, there are small amounts of the text which are off the edge, but none of the tables ... which is what one would think might force it wider.

Checking more closely in the saved source, I find that following the word Purchase in "Change from First Purchase" in the last table, there are a number of tabs. If I remove those tabs and open the page in a new browser again, then the CTRL-Wheel font scaling works all the way up and down without shifting to horizontal scaling. I.e., the tabs have made it appear that that one table was wider than would fit on the screen in some fonts so the browser created a box wide enough for the table and then formatted the text within that space.

So --Mike, if you take care to clean off any trailing tabs in the tables, you might not create the problem.
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