I have, on several occasions, had a problem where a document appears normal
in print preview, but when printed all formatting is lost. All characters
from each row pile on top of each other, creating a blacl block in the first
character space of each line. This is what comes out on paper and the view
also chnages to this.

I've had two other people tell me of similar events, so this is not unique
to my system. I run Windows XP (sp3) with Office 2003 (sp1). My print
driver is the most current available, I can't speak for the other peoples
machines. This has happened with regualr documents and also with merge
documents.

It takes a restart (or two or three) to clear the problem, and I can then go
months without seeing it again. One of the other people who has experienced
this says it is a regular but totally random occurance. Very frustrating.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Mark,

the most current driver available
is also the driver with the most current bugs.

And in the same way is a driver with a name corresponding
to the printer's name not always the best.

The problem seems not to occur for the first printout.
So if you don't try to print more than once,
everything can be alright.
I guess there something wrong with the way,
the driver finishes a print job.

I am using driver HP 4050 PS for quite a range of HP printers.

--
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

Thanks. I'll try differnt drivers and see how it goes.

"Helmut Weber" wrote:

Hi Mark,

the most current driver available
is also the driver with the most current bugs.

And in the same way is a driver with a name corresponding
to the printer's name not always the best.

The problem seems not to occur for the first printout.
So if you don't try to print more than once,
everything can be alright.
I guess there something wrong with the way,
the driver finishes a print job.

I am using driver HP 4050 PS for quite a range of HP printers.

--
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"