[Three Lefts]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:37 +0100, "Terry Farrell"
wrote:

The printer driver is critical in determining correct page layout both on
paper and on screen. So the first question is do both the screen view and
the printed page look identical (i.e. wrong)?

The problem is NOT the page layout (meaning the way the page is
formatted). The document formats correctly both on the screen and when
printed and both are identical.

The problem is that the the cursor becomes invisible in a few rows of
one table when it is split across a page.

I am very sure that the cursor is even operating correctly. I just
can't see where it is, so I am flying blind.

My subject line is misleading. It should have been something like,
"Cursor becomes invisible when table is split across pages".

Have you changed printers or printer drivers recently?

Not since these machines were purchased 9 months ago.

If it is none of those, then maybe the template is partially corrupted.
Open the template and then copy/paste all but the final paragraph mark into a new
blank document and save as a new template for testing. (Ctrl+End,
Ctrl+Shft+Home will select all but the final paragraph mark.)

Is Ctrl+End / Ctrl+Shift+Home different from Crtl+Home /
Ctrl+Shift+End / Shift+LeftArrow? Just curious.

If that doesn't work, are you able to duplicate the problem starting from a
new blank document?

None of the following actions were able to duplicate the problem:

1. Add/delete text above the table so that the table is either all on
page 1 or all on page 2.

2. Copy that same table to the bottom of page 2 so that it is partly
on page 2 and partly on page 3.

3. Create a new document using that template.

4. Edit the template itself.

5. Create a blank document (Ctrl-N). Copy the entire bad document
including the final paragraph mark.

6. Create a new document using that template. Select the entire bad
document including the final paragraph mark (Ctrl+A). Copy that to the
clipboard (Ctrl+C). Paste that into the new document at the top
(Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+V).


I was able to propagate the problem to a new document this way:

1. Create a new document using that template.
2. Delete everything in the new document (Ctrl+A / Delete).
3. Select the entire bad document including the final paragraph mark
(Ctrl+A).
4. Copy that to the clipboard (Ctrl+C).
5. Paste that into the new document (Ctrl+V).

This suggests to me that it has something to do with the collection of
settings and the location of that table.


When you say "corrupted", what kind of corruption are you suggesting?
Do you mean (a) a file system problem where the bits on the disk are
wrong havinbg nothing to do with Word, or (b) a Word problem where
Word mangled the information in the final paragraph mark, or (c)
something else?


It's odd that the problem only occurs in Print Layout and only affects
whether the cursor is visible. It's hard for me to imagine how file
corruption could cause an error like that.