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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent
to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
Different printer driver.
On Jan 1, 4:35*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
On Jan 1, 6:13*pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Different printer driver. On Jan 1, 4:35*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network. Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will print on one page when sent to another Word user? In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant. |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
The printer _driver_ is necessarily different on the two platforms.
Instead of using Line Spacing "single" (or whatever), use "exactly" some value. That might even ensure that the same amount of space is occupied in both situations and you won't have to scale it at all. On Jan 1, 10:09*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: On Jan 1, 6:13*pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Different printer driver. On Jan 1, 4:35*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network. Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will print on one page when sent to another Word user? In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant.- |
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On Jan 2, 12:49*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
The printer _driver_ is necessarily different on the two platforms. Instead of using Line Spacing "single" (or whatever), use "exactly" some value. That might even ensure that the same amount of space is occupied in both situations and you won't have to scale it at all. On Jan 1, 10:09*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: On Jan 1, 6:13*pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Different printer driver. On Jan 1, 4:35*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network. Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will print on one page when sent to another Word user? In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant.-- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks...please don't take any of the following as an argument, I'm simply pointing out what further testing has revealed. I do plan to try your line spacing suggestion when I get home tonight and have access to both the PC and the Mac. I'll post back once I've tried that. That said... I know that the drivers are different on the 2 systems, but I assumed that the drivers would know the physical properties of the printer (white space required at the top of the sheet for the paper to feed, lower limit of printable space at the bottom of the sheet, etc.) and format the output to fit. So, to see what would happen with some others drivers, I ran some more tests. This morning I have access to a PC that can be run under both a resident XP OS and cloud based Windows 7. From this PC I can print to a networked HP laser as well as a Brother laser printer attached to the parallel port of the system. Both printers are accessible from either OS environment. Obviously these printers, along with the different OS's, would be using different drivers than my home XP system with an HP inkjet and also different drivers than the Mac. In all 4 cases, (2 different OS environments and 2 different printers) the full-scale 1 page document printed on 1 page. Again, this is not an argument against the Mac printer driver being the root cause of the issue, I am simply pointing out that 5 different PC based drivers have no problem fitting the document to one page. Only the Mac, with it's different driver and different version of Word prints the document on 2 pages. As I said, I will play with the line spacing this evening and report back with the results. |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
On Jan 2, 10:21*am, DerbyDad03 wrote:
In all 4 cases, (2 different OS environments and 2 different printers) the full-scale 1 page document printed on 1 page. But you don't know whether they are otherwise identical -- even in vertical spacing they might differ, but not enough to send a line to the next page. (BTW, do you have Widow/Orphan Control turned on, and/ or Keep with Next?) |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
To fix that problem, you will have too send the résumé in PDF format.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "DerbyDad03" wrote in message ... In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant. |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
Thank you.
I will investigate that solution tonight when I have access to both the PC and the Mac. On Jan 2, 8:05*am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: To fix that problem, you will have too send the résumé in PDF format. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "DerbyDad03" wrote in message ... In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
Send the résumé as a PDF.
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 6:13 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Different printer driver. On Jan 1, 4:35 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network. Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will print on one page when sent to another Word user? In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant. |
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1 Page Doc on Windows Is 2 Pages On Mac
Creating a PDF has it's merits, but at the moment we are in the
editing mode. My daughter and I worked on the resume on my Windows machine and got it to fit on one page. I then emailed it to her for some further editing and that is when we found that the Mac split it into 2 pages. Since she will be emailing it out and posting it on application websites, she will need to scale it down to fit on one page before creating the PDF. Yes, that will ensure that the document will display/print on one page for all recipients, but it will also be uneditable. If she sends the original Word document back to me for review/editing, I might be able to get to fit on one page, but she might have to scale it again to get it back to one page before creating the PDF. For example, one version fit one page on my Windows machine. She scaled it down to 96% to fit on one page on her Mac and emailed it back to me. I opened it up on a different Windows machine and I can fit 4 more lines on one page. If I send that back to her, she'll need to scale it down even further. She is a college senior applying for grad schools and assitantships. The resume evolves as she completes internships and other activities so I think we may be in editing mode for a while. It just a pain to have it appear differently as we pass it back and forth. Thanks! On Jan 4, 10:32*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Send the résumé as a PDF. "DerbyDad03" *wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 6:13 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Different printer driver. On Jan 1, 4:35 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network. Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will print on one page when sent to another Word user? In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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As stated elsewhere, keep the Word format as long as you are still editing
the document, and then convert to PDF. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "DerbyDad03" wrote in message ... Creating a PDF has it's merits, but at the moment we are in the editing mode. My daughter and I worked on the resume on my Windows machine and got it to fit on one page. I then emailed it to her for some further editing and that is when we found that the Mac split it into 2 pages. Since she will be emailing it out and posting it on application websites, she will need to scale it down to fit on one page before creating the PDF. Yes, that will ensure that the document will display/print on one page for all recipients, but it will also be uneditable. If she sends the original Word document back to me for review/editing, I might be able to get to fit on one page, but she might have to scale it again to get it back to one page before creating the PDF. For example, one version fit one page on my Windows machine. She scaled it down to 96% to fit on one page on her Mac and emailed it back to me. I opened it up on a different Windows machine and I can fit 4 more lines on one page. If I send that back to her, she'll need to scale it down even further. She is a college senior applying for grad schools and assitantships. The resume evolves as she completes internships and other activities so I think we may be in editing mode for a while. It just a pain to have it appear differently as we pass it back and forth. Thanks! On Jan 4, 10:32 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Send the résumé as a PDF. "DerbyDad03" wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 6:13 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Different printer driver. On Jan 1, 4:35 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote: I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac. The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the last two lines of the document on the second page. If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page. I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same printer as my Windows machine. Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the same on both systems? Thanks, and Happy New Year! That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network. Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will print on one page when sent to another Word user? In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue. They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way, which could reflect badly on the applicant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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