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Default Text contained in a text box shows on screen but doesn't print

Thank you again. I appreciate your excellent advice and helpful orientations
- and so quickly! I will look more closely into how I place insertion points
of text boxes to try to avoid piling their placement processes too tightly
together.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Possibly a corruption issue. Or it could be that there was some peculiarity
about the text box (tight spacing, for example) that made the printer choke
on it.

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"joe quittner" wrote in message
...
Thank you - unchecking background printing in Tools|Options|Print worked
instantly! But it might help for the future to look a little better into

a
wrinkle, which is that I tried copying the page of text boxes into a new

doc,
in which I deleted all but the two of the original thirteen that didn't
print. Then I tried printing just that new doc with its two (remaining)

text
boxes - and the printer put out blank pages. Can THAT also be a spooling
problem (background printing was enabled)?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It may be a print spooling issue (document going to the printer before

the
spool file is complete). Try disabling background printing (Tools |

Options
| Print). If that doesn't help, go into the printer Properties and

rummage
around until you find an option to print directly to the printer

(without
spooling).

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"joe quittner" joe wrote in message
news My "drawing objects" item on the Print tab of Tools|Options is

checked. I
have a page in which photos, scans, and text are arranged in thirteen
texboxes, and nothing else outside the boxes is on the page. All

appear
as
intended in "Print Preview" but in printing, only elevent text box
contents
print - two are missing, one of text only, the other a scan of a
photograph.
Three other scans of photos do print, as do four other boxes of text

and
four
boxes of digital photos.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Make sure that "Drawing objects" is checked on the Print tab of

Tools |
Options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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http://word.mvps.org
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"Blue Skies" Blue wrote in message
...
Suddenly, any text contained within text boxes doesn't print out
although
it
shows up on the screen.

Any ideas?

Not sure if it's a problem within Word or the printer settings.