[Scooby]

Hi,

When I open a word document, all the words and letters are squashed up at
the beginning of the line, all sort of on top of each other.

Does anyone know what maybe causing this?

(word 2003/XP Pro SP2)

[JoAnn Paules]

It's often attributed to a printer driver issue. Try changing the default
printer. You can change back before you print it if needed.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"Scooby" wrote in message
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Hi,

When I open a word document, all the words and letters are squashed up at
the beginning of the line, all sort of on top of each other.

Does anyone know what maybe causing this?

(word 2003/XP Pro SP2)

[Graham Mayor]

According to contributor Bob Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow seems to
have Word misreading temporary files related to the printer currently in
use. You can usually 'unscramble' the display from File=Print and switch
to the printer properties or to another printer then your normal one, or
close Word and delete all files found on Start=Search and looking for
~$*.*;*.tmp as the name string then restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Scooby wrote:
Hi,

When I open a word document, all the words and letters are squashed
up at the beginning of the line, all sort of on top of each other.

Does anyone know what maybe causing this?

(word 2003/XP Pro SP2)