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Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are
using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Hi Terry
I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003.
But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Hi Terry
nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Good. Let us know if we can be of any more help.
Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Hi Terry
It is still playing up and I am rapidly losing the will to live. I have done what you suggested. The document is set up as 'letter' in Page SetUp. I have 'letter' size paper in the bypass tray of the printer and I have changed the printer setting to compensate. When I check the Print Preview it all looks fine but when I print the footer is being cut in two and the header is much bigger than it should be. I have fiddled around with the header and footer measurements but it doesnt seem to make any difference or correlate with what I see on the screen. Even weirder the pages that are landscape are as they should be. It is only the portrait pages which are not behaving as required. I have made sure I have uncheck 'letter resizing' as well so that it does not conflict. Any other suggestions before lose the plot Thanks J "Terry Farrell" wrote: Good. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Hi
Still badly need help with this. I have also tried using my orginal 'A4 document' and using the resize to 'letter function and that does not work either. I have to get these printed tomorrow UK time so please can someone lend a hand and suggest something soon Thanks jude "yellowhouse1976" wrote: Hi Terry It is still playing up and I am rapidly losing the will to live. I have done what you suggested. The document is set up as 'letter' in Page SetUp. I have 'letter' size paper in the bypass tray of the printer and I have changed the printer setting to compensate. When I check the Print Preview it all looks fine but when I print the footer is being cut in two and the header is much bigger than it should be. I have fiddled around with the header and footer measurements but it doesnt seem to make any difference or correlate with what I see on the screen. Even weirder the pages that are landscape are as they should be. It is only the portrait pages which are not behaving as required. I have made sure I have uncheck 'letter resizing' as well so that it does not conflict. Any other suggestions before lose the plot Thanks J "Terry Farrell" wrote: Good. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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This is sounding less like a resizing problem that a corrupt document -
namely in the Headers or Footers. If the H&F margins are correctly set and the paper size is set to Letter everywhere, the H&Fs should print as they are seen in Print Preview. Either the document is corrupt or the printer driver is partially corrupt. Can you email me a small sample document as an email attachment? Have you tried Open & Repair option? Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Still badly need help with this. I have also tried using my orginal 'A4 document' and using the resize to 'letter function and that does not work either. I have to get these printed tomorrow UK time so please can someone lend a hand and suggest something soon Thanks jude "yellowhouse1976" wrote: Hi Terry It is still playing up and I am rapidly losing the will to live. I have done what you suggested. The document is set up as 'letter' in Page SetUp. I have 'letter' size paper in the bypass tray of the printer and I have changed the printer setting to compensate. When I check the Print Preview it all looks fine but when I print the footer is being cut in two and the header is much bigger than it should be. I have fiddled around with the header and footer measurements but it doesnt seem to make any difference or correlate with what I see on the screen. Even weirder the pages that are landscape are as they should be. It is only the portrait pages which are not behaving as required. I have made sure I have uncheck 'letter resizing' as well so that it does not conflict. Any other suggestions before lose the plot Thanks J "Terry Farrell" wrote: Good. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Hi Terry
I HAVE FINALLY CRACKED IT We have networked printers here which by default are set to change any document to UK A4. I was doing everything right but the printer network settings always countermanded my commands and switched it back to A4. I had to get an engineer in to change the setting and it is now printing as I see it on screen. Everyone who was trying to duplicate the problem in their own offices was using a non-networked printer so didnt have a problem. This is a lesson I will not be forgetting for a long while. Thanks for your help Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: This is sounding less like a resizing problem that a corrupt document - namely in the Headers or Footers. If the H&F margins are correctly set and the paper size is set to Letter everywhere, the H&Fs should print as they are seen in Print Preview. Either the document is corrupt or the printer driver is partially corrupt. Can you email me a small sample document as an email attachment? Have you tried Open & Repair option? Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Still badly need help with this. I have also tried using my orginal 'A4 document' and using the resize to 'letter function and that does not work either. I have to get these printed tomorrow UK time so please can someone lend a hand and suggest something soon Thanks jude "yellowhouse1976" wrote: Hi Terry It is still playing up and I am rapidly losing the will to live. I have done what you suggested. The document is set up as 'letter' in Page SetUp. I have 'letter' size paper in the bypass tray of the printer and I have changed the printer setting to compensate. When I check the Print Preview it all looks fine but when I print the footer is being cut in two and the header is much bigger than it should be. I have fiddled around with the header and footer measurements but it doesnt seem to make any difference or correlate with what I see on the screen. Even weirder the pages that are landscape are as they should be. It is only the portrait pages which are not behaving as required. I have made sure I have uncheck 'letter resizing' as well so that it does not conflict. Any other suggestions before lose the plot Thanks J "Terry Farrell" wrote: Good. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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Hurray! Thank heavens you found that out. Sometimes network admins need
stringing up. Why would anyone dictate that printers had to print portrait! Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I HAVE FINALLY CRACKED IT We have networked printers here which by default are set to change any document to UK A4. I was doing everything right but the printer network settings always countermanded my commands and switched it back to A4. I had to get an engineer in to change the setting and it is now printing as I see it on screen. Everyone who was trying to duplicate the problem in their own offices was using a non-networked printer so didnt have a problem. This is a lesson I will not be forgetting for a long while. Thanks for your help Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: This is sounding less like a resizing problem that a corrupt document - namely in the Headers or Footers. If the H&F margins are correctly set and the paper size is set to Letter everywhere, the H&Fs should print as they are seen in Print Preview. Either the document is corrupt or the printer driver is partially corrupt. Can you email me a small sample document as an email attachment? Have you tried Open & Repair option? Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Still badly need help with this. I have also tried using my orginal 'A4 document' and using the resize to 'letter function and that does not work either. I have to get these printed tomorrow UK time so please can someone lend a hand and suggest something soon Thanks jude "yellowhouse1976" wrote: Hi Terry It is still playing up and I am rapidly losing the will to live. I have done what you suggested. The document is set up as 'letter' in Page SetUp. I have 'letter' size paper in the bypass tray of the printer and I have changed the printer setting to compensate. When I check the Preview it all looks fine but when I print the footer is being cut in two and the header is much bigger than it should be. I have fiddled around with the header and footer measurements but it doesnt seem to make any difference or correlate with what I see on the screen. Even weirder the pages that are landscape are as they should be. It is only the portrait pages which are not behaving as required. I have made sure I have uncheck 'letter resizing' as well so that it does not conflict. Any other suggestions before lose the plot Thanks J "Terry Farrell" wrote: Good. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry nearly there. I have sorted the footers but the headers are still playing up. Am going to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Excruciating is definitely the right word J "Terry Farrell" wrote: IIRC, it is under Print Options in Word 2003. But if you have changed your paper to Letter under Page Setup and you have Letter paper in the printer, you just need to set Letter in the Printer Properties. Then check in Print Preview to what the printed document should look like when printed. If the Footer is too close to the page bottom, then adjust the Footer Margin in Page Setup. Ditto with the Headers. But perhaps your problem is that you have the A4/Letter resizing enabled and it is conflicting with your attempts to manually create a Letter sized document. SO make sure that option is unchecked and that the paper size is set to Letter on the Printer, in Print Setup and in Page Setup in Word. (I guess that 'excruciating' is not a bad description of your task!) Terry "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Terry I am using Office 2003 with SP3. Maybe I did not explain properly. I have no choice but to print the document on 'letter' as this is what my client in the US wants me to do. It's a long and boring story but the bottom line is I have no choice. The orginal document was obviously set up in A4 being that I work in the UK. When i was told i needed to print on 'letter' I made second version of the document so that it was seperate from my orginal A4 version. I have tried printing from the A4 version and scaling it to 'letter' through the printer settings but that doesnt work properly either. Where is this 'scale content for 8.5 x 11" paper size' option that you mention please? Thanks Jude "Terry Farrell" wrote: You should have come here first. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but the last few versions have all had 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11" paper sizes' (or similar wording). Sourcing Letter size paper and doing what you are attempting sound excruciating. All you need is to set that option (which should be by default) and print to A4 stock. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "yellowhouse1976" wrote in message ... Hi Help needed please. I am in the UK and normally only work with UK A4 documents. I have to print some manuals on the US Letter size paper which I understand is 8.5" x 11". I have sourced some paper and I re-formatted the document to 'letter size' but it just wont print properly. I have made sure that the printer is set to 'letter size' as well. The bottom footer is really close the bottom of the page and headers on the ladscape pages keep being cut off. I have played around with the margins and headers and footer measurements but it still wont print properly. Any suggestions please? Thanks jude |
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