I used the YES box to say the post was helpful, but I wanted to come back and
say thank you for sticking with me and being so helpful. I really appreciate
it.
"Cindy M." wrote:
Hi ?B?c3d0cGF0b290eQ==?=,
I passed on your suggestions to the lady who handles the printing and
collation of the final documents, and here's what she said:
"I tried the suggestion about renaming to xml and it printed okay that way
so renaming the file is probably the easiest solution at this point. FYI, I
print in reverse order so actually the 0-0-0 numbers are the FIRST ones to be
printed."
Ah. I vaguely remember something about this, but the details don't bubble up
today...
So we have a workaround solution for now. But I wanna know WHY it worked. 
Right g Documents tend to accumulate "sludge" in the binary file format.
Unlike WordPerfect, Word doesn't store each and every formatting command, etc.
in the text flow. Instead, it maintains tables of information, with pointers in
the text flow. On occasion, the pointers unlink from the original information,
or even get linked to the wrong part of the table. That kind of thing. The user
perceives this as "document corruption".
When you save Word to another file format a converter comes into play. It works
through the binary file format and writes the desired format. If the converter
comes across unlinked entries or other things that don't "rhyme", it will
generally throw them out or at least bring them to the surface where you can do
something about it.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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