Hi Alan,

What make and model of printer driver are you using?

Do you have the MS Remove Hidden Data Office Add-in
installed?

If you use File=Print and switch/switch-back
or reaffirm the properties of the selected driver that
seems to help. If that works then close Word and
use Start=Search to locate and delete files found
with the search string:
~$*.*;*.tmp
then restart Word

What appears to be happening is that
Word (which relies on the printer driver for page layout
information) loses track, or misreads, the driver due
to something in temp files.

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"AlanTerrill" wrote in message
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In Word 2002, I've been called to two users who have somehow managed to type
a sentence and it appears on the screen as a single jumble of characters, ie
all the letters in the sentence are sitting on top of each other. If a new
line is started, as you type the status bar says line 2, column 36 etc but
the characters in the typing area don't move to the right, they just keep
appearing on top of each other. Margins are set to normal values, but the
characters can't access the rest of the screen. Opening a new document does
the same thing. If Word is closed down and reopened , typing goes back to
normal behaviour.
Does anyone know why this might occur?
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*