[Meginozz]

Thanks Daiya, but I forgot to mention that it's ONLY this one page
that prints upside down. And the upside down page comes on a separate
page - the page that gets printed after it flips over. The rest of the
document prints fine, and I don't think it's the printer driver or the
settings, as it was printed by a guy who's been printing out the old
version of this document double-sided for ages and is using all the
same settings. The problem just started when I created this new
document. The two-column section was copied from the old document but
the table I created from scratch. But as I get the same problem if I
just put text on the page after the columns, I don't think it's the
table causing the problem.

I'm 99% certain it's something to do with the section breaks, and from
what you've said, probably to do with the printer seeing it a separate
print job. But I can't figure out what or how to fix it????

Megan


On Feb 15, 5:15 am, Daiya Mitchell
wrote:
One possibility--This sounds like your duplex printer is flipping over
the pages the wrong way, or rather, the way your printer flips pages is
not the way the computer expects it to. Explore all the printer options
in the File | Print dialog--with some printers, you can choose how
duplex printing works--whether it flips the paper on the long edge or
the short edge. If you have a short-edge flipping printer, but the
printer settings say flip on the long edge, you would get upside-down
text on alternate pages.

I'm not totally clear from your question whether you are getting
upside-down text on the *same* page as right-side-up text. If you are,
then the section break *could* account for that within the diagnosis
above, as section breaks often mean the next section of the document is
sent to the printer as a different print job, and thus might be read by
the printer as a different "page" that needs to be reversed. So it's
still worth checking the printer options.

If you can't find a setting, make sure that you are using the exact
printer driver for the printer you have, and check the website for the
printer to see if there is an updated printer.

In general, when Print Preview is correct, but the printed output is
wrong, that points to everything in Word being set up correctly, and
something having gone wrong with the communication between Word and the
printer--which is handled by the printer driver and print options.