Does switching printer properties fix it temporarily?
My guess is that it is a print driver issue, but maybe Bob will be along
soon to explain?
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Dave W wrote:
Graham,
Thanks for your reply, I've deleted the temporary files but it is
still happening but this time with the Times New Roman font at 10
points. Change the size to 9 or 11 points and the display comes back
OK, change it to 10 and the characters display one on top of each
other again.
Do anyone know if Microsoft are working on this problem or is it a
problem with the printer driver?
According to contributor Bob Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow
seems to have Word misreading temporary files related to the printer
currently in use. You can usually 'unscramble' the display from
File=Print and switch to the printer properties or to another
printer then your normal one, or close Word and delete all files
found on Start=Search and looking for ~$*.*;*.tmp as the name
string then restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Dave W wrote:
I'm experiencing a very strange problem. I've just installed Office
2007 and when a document created by a previous version is loaded in
Word 2007 and it uses the Arial 10 font then the letters display on
top of each other. Change the font size to 9 or 11 and it displays
OK, change the font family and it displays OK but Arial 10!
This does not happen all the time and I've fixed it by choosing
another font (not a simple task as there are hundreds of protected
documents to change) but I wondered if anyone else has been having
this problem.