Tamar,
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>IOW, the problem isn't in Windows, it's with the people creating the applications and documents, who are making a poor choice of font.

I remember a similar discussion with you some time back. I continue to hold the counter opinion - that it *is* the responsibility of "windows" and the choices made by a user have little (possibly there are some cases, but very few) to do with the problem.

I believe that Windows internals does handle the fonts themselves properly but that it is the "whitespace" where its handling fails. Simplistically, I would say that Windows fails to scale the whitespace as it does with the fonts.

I feel strongly about this for a simple reason: I get many Word documents with tables in them and in many cases those tables format POORLY on my "Large Fonts" systems yet look perfectly fine on my "Normal Fonts" displays. Invariably there is word-wrap happening in the "Large Fonts" display, causing the cells to be larger and look lousy.
I have the same kind of thing on both home-grown and external web pages. In virtually ALL cases, the fonts in question are standard and scalable.

Have I changed your mind?

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>Tamar