[Mahogany]

For some reason, after a particular exercise, my header and footer content
becomes illegible at the point of printing. I often cut and paste screen
images/dumps from a system application creating a (save-able) Word document
for archives. The final action is to identify the doc by adding headers and
footers. The Header and Footer content is fine. For a while. Then moments
later the Header title becomes a blob. So does my initials, page nos. and
date/time in Footer. On closer inspection, the blob is made up of the actual
letters sitting ON TOP of each other instead of next to each other (to form
words). I have tried for weeks to rectify thinking it must be a format
problem but margins et al are set at standard. Please help.

[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


Mahogany wrote:
For some reason, after a particular exercise, my header and footer
content becomes illegible at the point of printing. I often cut and
paste screen images/dumps from a system application creating a
(save-able) Word document for archives. The final action is to
identify the doc by adding headers and footers. The Header and
Footer content is fine. For a while. Then moments later the Header
title becomes a blob. So does my initials, page nos. and date/time in
Footer. On closer inspection, the blob is made up of the actual
letters sitting ON TOP of each other instead of next to each other
(to form words). I have tried for weeks to rectify thinking it must
be a format problem but margins et al are set at standard. Please
help.

[Mahogany]

Will give that a try on Monday. Thank you Graham ... and Bob.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

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

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Mahogany wrote:
For some reason, after a particular exercise, my header and footer
content becomes illegible at the point of printing. I often cut and
paste screen images/dumps from a system application creating a
(save-able) Word document for archives. The final action is to
identify the doc by adding headers and footers. The Header and
Footer content is fine. For a while. Then moments later the Header
title becomes a blob. So does my initials, page nos. and date/time in
Footer. On closer inspection, the blob is made up of the actual
letters sitting ON TOP of each other instead of next to each other
(to form words). I have tried for weeks to rectify thinking it must
be a format problem but margins et al are set at standard. Please
help.

[Mahogany]

Works every time!

"Mahogany" wrote:

Will give that a try on Monday. Thank you Graham ... and Bob.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

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

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Mahogany wrote:
For some reason, after a particular exercise, my header and footer
content becomes illegible at the point of printing. I often cut and
paste screen images/dumps from a system application creating a
(save-able) Word document for archives. The final action is to
identify the doc by adding headers and footers. The Header and
Footer content is fine. For a while. Then moments later the Header
title becomes a blob. So does my initials, page nos. and date/time in
Footer. On closer inspection, the blob is made up of the actual
letters sitting ON TOP of each other instead of next to each other
(to form words). I have tried for weeks to rectify thinking it must
be a format problem but margins et al are set at standard. Please
help.