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Document prints as blank
I have a Word document (word 2003), a single page, some text (small but
not tiny) inside a text box with a thin black border. [It's a card that I cut out on the border lines with medical information that I carry in my wallet]. I can't print it ... it looks fine on the screen, but it prints as a totally blank page (at least it doesn't waste any ink or paper trying to print it]. Print preview is also totally blank. I have tried all of the formatting options for the text box, none of them makes anything print. The text is not hidden. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? It looks perfectly, absolutely normal on the screen. |
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Document prints as blank
Select Tools Options Print tab and turn on "Drawing objects". Click OK.
For more details, see: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/...leGraphics.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Barry Watzman" wrote: I have a Word document (word 2003), a single page, some text (small but not tiny) inside a text box with a thin black border. [It's a card that I cut out on the border lines with medical information that I carry in my wallet]. I can't print it ... it looks fine on the screen, but it prints as a totally blank page (at least it doesn't waste any ink or paper trying to print it]. Print preview is also totally blank. I have tried all of the formatting options for the text box, none of them makes anything print. The text is not hidden. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? It looks perfectly, absolutely normal on the screen. |
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Thank you; that fixed it.
It does, however, raise the question as to why doing such things (checking this box) is necessary, why it's not the default (since I didn't uncheck it) and why it is so obscure. Lene Fredborg wrote: Select Tools Options Print tab and turn on "Drawing objects". Click OK. For more details, see: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/...leGraphics.htm |
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Diificult questions are the ones to which you don't know the answers.
Obscurity is thus a relative term. It is the default, but Word 2003 has a bad habit of randomly losing some customisations stored in the settings sub key of the Word Data key in the registry. Deleting that key can effect a (often temporary) fix, but if you find it changes again, you can create a permament fix using autoopen and autonew macros in the normal template to force the setting for each document. See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm The particular macro entry for issue this would be Options.PrintDrawingObjects = True -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Barry Watzman wrote: Thank you; that fixed it. It does, however, raise the question as to why doing such things (checking this box) is necessary, why it's not the default (since I didn't uncheck it) and why it is so obscure. Lene Fredborg wrote: Select Tools Options Print tab and turn on "Drawing objects". Click OK. For more details, see: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/...leGraphics.htm |
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