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version problem - not saving my formatting
hi - i am running office 97 at work, and cannot change this due to our
database designed for access 97. i am editing several books and then sending them to our printing company to be printed and bound. when i go through my formatting and editing process and save the file to disc, i take it to them, they open the file in their system and send it to their printer. the problem is, when they open it, the file has lost all the formatting, font sizes, page breaks aetc that i've spent hours working on. when i look at the parent file on my machine, or print sample pages on my desktop printer they look exactly as i had intended, but when they print from their end all this formatting is lost. is this because they are running a newer version of Word? is there something I can do (besides work from a different computer in somoeone else's office). We tried to upgrade my machine to office 2000, but all the programs are bundled and you can't just install WORD, and office 2000 killed my access database (had to reset the computer to a previous date to undo the install! yikes). is there some patch I can download? or a workaround? thanks a bunch - Liz in NM |
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version problem - not saving my formatting
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. You may be able to
achieve the desired results by installing the printer driver the printer is using. Or the only satisfactory solution may be to convert to PDF. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "zufhaus" wrote in message ... hi - i am running office 97 at work, and cannot change this due to our database designed for access 97. i am editing several books and then sending them to our printing company to be printed and bound. when i go through my formatting and editing process and save the file to disc, i take it to them, they open the file in their system and send it to their printer. the problem is, when they open it, the file has lost all the formatting, font sizes, page breaks aetc that i've spent hours working on. when i look at the parent file on my machine, or print sample pages on my desktop printer they look exactly as i had intended, but when they print from their end all this formatting is lost. is this because they are running a newer version of Word? is there something I can do (besides work from a different computer in somoeone else's office). We tried to upgrade my machine to office 2000, but all the programs are bundled and you can't just install WORD, and office 2000 killed my access database (had to reset the computer to a previous date to undo the install! yikes). is there some patch I can download? or a workaround? thanks a bunch - Liz in NM |
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version problem - not saving my formatting
thanks suzanne - you presented me with a couple of options to check out.
also - one of the more important formatting issues not being "saved" is FONT SIZE - do you think your fix will address this issue as well? For example, i saved a block of text at 12 pt, but when i save the file to disc and take it to another machine, that same block of text is now 10 pt. same thing - looks perfect on my machine, but not when i burn the file to cd and open it elsewhere. thanks again! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. You may be able to achieve the desired results by installing the printer driver the printer is using. Or the only satisfactory solution may be to convert to PDF. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "zufhaus" wrote in message ... hi - i am running office 97 at work, and cannot change this due to our database designed for access 97. i am editing several books and then sending them to our printing company to be printed and bound. when i go through my formatting and editing process and save the file to disc, i take it to them, they open the file in their system and send it to their printer. the problem is, when they open it, the file has lost all the formatting, font sizes, page breaks aetc that i've spent hours working on. when i look at the parent file on my machine, or print sample pages on my desktop printer they look exactly as i had intended, but when they print from their end all this formatting is lost. is this because they are running a newer version of Word? is there something I can do (besides work from a different computer in somoeone else's office). We tried to upgrade my machine to office 2000, but all the programs are bundled and you can't just install WORD, and office 2000 killed my access database (had to reset the computer to a previous date to undo the install! yikes). is there some patch I can download? or a workaround? thanks a bunch - Liz in NM |
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version problem - not saving my formatting
Make sure that you don't have "Automatically update styles" checked in Tools
| Templates and Add-ins, especially if you have based the document on Normal.dot. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "zufhaus" wrote in message ... thanks suzanne - you presented me with a couple of options to check out. also - one of the more important formatting issues not being "saved" is FONT SIZE - do you think your fix will address this issue as well? For example, i saved a block of text at 12 pt, but when i save the file to disc and take it to another machine, that same block of text is now 10 pt. same thing - looks perfect on my machine, but not when i burn the file to cd and open it elsewhere. thanks again! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. You may be able to achieve the desired results by installing the printer driver the printer is using. Or the only satisfactory solution may be to convert to PDF. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "zufhaus" wrote in message ... hi - i am running office 97 at work, and cannot change this due to our database designed for access 97. i am editing several books and then sending them to our printing company to be printed and bound. when i go through my formatting and editing process and save the file to disc, i take it to them, they open the file in their system and send it to their printer. the problem is, when they open it, the file has lost all the formatting, font sizes, page breaks aetc that i've spent hours working on. when i look at the parent file on my machine, or print sample pages on my desktop printer they look exactly as i had intended, but when they print from their end all this formatting is lost. is this because they are running a newer version of Word? is there something I can do (besides work from a different computer in somoeone else's office). We tried to upgrade my machine to office 2000, but all the programs are bundled and you can't just install WORD, and office 2000 killed my access database (had to reset the computer to a previous date to undo the install! yikes). is there some patch I can download? or a workaround? thanks a bunch - Liz in NM |
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