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Why would text appear in normal and not print preview?
Word2003
WindowsXP The document has a paragraph that you can see in Word's Normal view. When you change to print layout view the text disappears. The hidden text option is selected to show hidden text. Thank you. Donna |
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HT wrote:
Word2003 WindowsXP The document has a paragraph that you can see in Word's Normal view. When you change to print layout view the text disappears. The hidden text option is selected to show hidden text. Thank you. Donna This makes sense only if the text is missing in *Print Preview*, not if it's missing in *Print Layout view*... There are two separate checkboxes for hidden text in the Tools Options dialog, one on the View tab and one on the Print tab. It sounds like you have the View one checked but the Print one unchecked. But that wouldn't affect Print Layout view. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Text displayed in Normal view but not in Print Layout view or Print Preview
is usually text that is running off the bottom of the page. There are several possible reasons for this: 1. Text is in a text box. Text boxes (like other drawing objects) cannot exceed one page. If you absolutely, positively need to use text boxes, you'll need to add another on page 2 and link it to the one on page 1 so the text will autoflow. 2. Text is in a wrapped table. Wrapped tables can't exceed one page. Go to the Table tab of Table | Properties and set text wrapping to None. Note that it's very easy to dislodge a table (and thus make it wrapped) by nudging the table handle in Print Layout view; that's one reason it's safer and easier to work on tables in Normal view. 3. Text is in a table row with Exact row height; it may not be truncated in Normal view but will be in others. (Actually, I see it truncated in Normal view as well, but ISTR that this may not have been true in earlier versions.) 4. The document has been formatted with multiple columns, with column width set to margin width. This is a bug we've seen a lot of lately. Obviously, if column 1 is the width of the page, there's no room for column 2, so it goes into Never-Never-Land. The fix is to go to Format | Columns and click the box for One. -- 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. "HT" wrote in message ... Word2003 WindowsXP The document has a paragraph that you can see in Word's Normal view. When you change to print layout view the text disappears. The hidden text option is selected to show hidden text. Thank you. Donna |
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Thank you Suzanne..the text was in fact in a table.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Text displayed in Normal view but not in Print Layout view or Print Preview is usually text that is running off the bottom of the page. There are several possible reasons for this: 1. Text is in a text box. Text boxes (like other drawing objects) cannot exceed one page. If you absolutely, positively need to use text boxes, you'll need to add another on page 2 and link it to the one on page 1 so the text will autoflow. 2. Text is in a wrapped table. Wrapped tables can't exceed one page. Go to the Table tab of Table | Properties and set text wrapping to None. Note that it's very easy to dislodge a table (and thus make it wrapped) by nudging the table handle in Print Layout view; that's one reason it's safer and easier to work on tables in Normal view. 3. Text is in a table row with Exact row height; it may not be truncated in Normal view but will be in others. (Actually, I see it truncated in Normal view as well, but ISTR that this may not have been true in earlier versions.) 4. The document has been formatted with multiple columns, with column width set to margin width. This is a bug we've seen a lot of lately. Obviously, if column 1 is the width of the page, there's no room for column 2, so it goes into Never-Never-Land. The fix is to go to Format | Columns and click the box for One. -- 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. "HT" wrote in message ... Word2003 WindowsXP The document has a paragraph that you can see in Word's Normal view. When you change to print layout view the text disappears. The hidden text option is selected to show hidden text. Thank you. Donna |
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Glad you got it sorted!
-- 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. "HT" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne..the text was in fact in a table. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Text displayed in Normal view but not in Print Layout view or Print Preview is usually text that is running off the bottom of the page. There are several possible reasons for this: 1. Text is in a text box. Text boxes (like other drawing objects) cannot exceed one page. If you absolutely, positively need to use text boxes, you'll need to add another on page 2 and link it to the one on page 1 so the text will autoflow. 2. Text is in a wrapped table. Wrapped tables can't exceed one page. Go to the Table tab of Table | Properties and set text wrapping to None. Note that it's very easy to dislodge a table (and thus make it wrapped) by nudging the table handle in Print Layout view; that's one reason it's safer and easier to work on tables in Normal view. 3. Text is in a table row with Exact row height; it may not be truncated in Normal view but will be in others. (Actually, I see it truncated in Normal view as well, but ISTR that this may not have been true in earlier versions.) 4. The document has been formatted with multiple columns, with column width set to margin width. This is a bug we've seen a lot of lately. Obviously, if column 1 is the width of the page, there's no room for column 2, so it goes into Never-Never-Land. The fix is to go to Format | Columns and click the box for One. -- 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. "HT" wrote in message ... Word2003 WindowsXP The document has a paragraph that you can see in Word's Normal view. When you change to print layout view the text disappears. The hidden text option is selected to show hidden text. Thank you. Donna |