[Jason]

The test format of all of my documents suddenly changed in mid-use. I went
to print my document and for each line the text merged on top of each other,
now it looks like a column of symbols, but the symbols are actually stacked
letters. Any ideas on how to change the format back? Any ideas on how this
happened?

[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


Jason wrote:
The test format of all of my documents suddenly changed in mid-use.
I went to print my document and for each line the text merged on top
of each other, now it looks like a column of symbols, but the symbols
are actually stacked letters. Any ideas on how to change the format
back? Any ideas on how this happened?