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MS Word RTF Textboxes Blank on Printout
Hi,
This is my first post to Google groups, so please excuse me if I stray from the general etiquette. I've created a RTF document that contains several textboxes. Some of these textboxes are blank and others contain a single character in them (just like the appearance of a HTML checkbox). After I created the document, I opened it in Word 2002 (with SP3) and looked at the print preview - which shows me the document exactly as I wanted it to appear. However, when I print it, all the textboxes print out blank except for the last row. I've spent a good amount of time looking at the RTF code to make sure that they are all exactly the same. I've also spent a lot of time looking at the different options available in Word, but that didnt do anything either. If anyone has any clue how I could go about taking care of this, please respond. I would appreciate any help. Thanks. CMG PS I've tried it on three different printers, each with updated drivers and the get the same result everytime. |
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If you can really see the text boxes in Print Preview, they should print; if
they don't, the problem is with the printer driver. If, however, you are confusing Print Layout view with Print Preview, make sure that you have "Drawing objects" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "C.M. Gogo" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, This is my first post to Google groups, so please excuse me if I stray from the general etiquette. I've created a RTF document that contains several textboxes. Some of these textboxes are blank and others contain a single character in them (just like the appearance of a HTML checkbox). After I created the document, I opened it in Word 2002 (with SP3) and looked at the print preview - which shows me the document exactly as I wanted it to appear. However, when I print it, all the textboxes print out blank except for the last row. I've spent a good amount of time looking at the RTF code to make sure that they are all exactly the same. I've also spent a lot of time looking at the different options available in Word, but that didnt do anything either. If anyone has any clue how I could go about taking care of this, please respond. I would appreciate any help. Thanks. CMG PS I've tried it on three different printers, each with updated drivers and the get the same result everytime. |
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Thanks for your quick response Suzanne. I normally work in the Print
Layout view, but I'm not confusing that with Print Preview. I looked at Tools - Options - Print tab and "Drawing objects" has been checked all along, but still no luck on the printout. To my knowlwdge the drivers are up to date. Whats making this exceptionally weird to me is that the last row of textboxes still print out correctly with the right content. All rows except the last one print out blank, even though they look like they have the right content when I look at them in print preview. And to my knowledge the RTF code of ALL checkboxes is EXACTLY the same. Can you think of ANYTHING else I could do? Thanks. CMG |
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Thanks for your input John. I decided to abandon the approach of using
text boxes and re-did the row using images of textboxes (checked or blank). The document does take up slightly more space now, but it works. Thanks again for you help. CMG |
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