HP drivers are... notorious ...for problems in Word. Reportedly the beta
drivers at http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbe*ta/index.html solve some of those
problems, so see if there's one for your model.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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Thanks for the suggestions. These are small tables -- 2-5 rows. I can
try reinstalling the printer drivers. But they are HP drivers, you
see, and came with a 4.5 Meg software package. I'm sure the driver
itself isn't that big; I suspect bloatware.

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In the last exciting episode on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:28 -0500, "Jay
Freedman" wrote:

Hi Fishy,

Problems like that can be caused by the video driver and/or the
printer driver (Word uses the printer driver's information to do
page layout in Print Layout view). Try reinstalling the drivers, and
check the manufacturers' websites for updated drivers.

Big tables can make Word sluggish (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/FastTables.htm), but that
shouldn't affect the "jumbled" appearance.