Thanks for the insults, but the solutions cited have been tried previously.
When I said I tried everything, dont think I havent been trying with 8
years of frustration with Word.
If Microsoft cared, they would recognize and correct these problems, or at
least give you something in the documentation. I work with at least a dozen
other major page layout and graphics programs on a daily basis, which I
consider to be my tools and Word IS the ONLY program/tool that throws these
kind of curves at you ALL THE TIME. No other program has so many nebulous
checkboxes. My other €śtools€ť work just fine, because they dont shift things
around like Word. Im not the only person that I hear complaining about this
€śshould I say€ť proprietary little idiosyncrasy. Perhaps the
Gates/Borg/Futility image floating around the web is something created by
someone who LOVES Microsoft.
First of all, I may not be the creator of the original document. I print
stuff from at least 150 different entities and when they say theyre sending
a Word Doc, I shutter.
Heres an example. We have two workstations that have exactly the same
versions and settings, same default printer, set exactly the same, and have
two completely separate looks when you open the exact same document.
"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html .
Resistance is not futile... you have apparently managed to resist
learning how to use the software for all these years. As for
proprietary garbage, well, a poor workman blames his tools.
Roger at Desert Sands wrote:
Why do Word documents change appearance from computer to computer? In one
example the word wrap and colums change to the point that a new page is
created with as many as 35 or 40 lines. It opens fine on some computers, but
not on others. I tried everything, including removing the "normal.dot" and
re-opening. Nothing works. Are there some defaults or something that I'm
missing. This has been a problem for years, but we have just re-worked the
documents to accomodate Microsoft's typical proprietary garbage, but it's
high time Microsoft earned their keep. Let's have a fix please.
Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated!