[IT Michael]

I'm using Office 2003 Small Business, and one of our machines is
occassionally having a problem in MS Word. The user types up a document, and
saves it as a normal .doc file.

When typing/saving, the document appears normal. When some files are
re-opened, however, all of the text appears crammed within a single character
on the left-hand side. It's almost as if the right-hand margin has been way
overextended.

The document appears fine if e-mailed to another user, even if the user has
the same default printer. It's specific to one machine, and a handful of
documents. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[Graham Mayor]

According to contributor Bob Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow seems to
have Word misreading temporary files related to the printer currently in
use. You can usually 'unscramble' the display from File=Print and switch
to the printer properties or to another printer then your normal one, or
close Word and delete all files found on Start=Search and looking for
~$*.*;*.tmp as the name string then restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


IT Michael wrote:
I'm using Office 2003 Small Business, and one of our machines is
occassionally having a problem in MS Word. The user types up a
document, and saves it as a normal .doc file.

When typing/saving, the document appears normal. When some files are
re-opened, however, all of the text appears crammed within a single
character on the left-hand side. It's almost as if the right-hand
margin has been way overextended.

The document appears fine if e-mailed to another user, even if the
user has the same default printer. It's specific to one machine, and
a handful of documents. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank
you!