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printer skipping text on formatted document
My 88-pg. Word document (poetry manuscript) prints with random skips. Maybe
a line or two, maybe a word or several words randomly, and not on every page. I was told to retype it in "Normal" style, as word can get confused with lots of formatting. Instead, I formatted a style especially for the ms. and used that. I've had the printer checked. It's ok and it works perfectly on everything but this document. Thanks for your help. -- HazelD |
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printer skipping text on formatted document
Well, first of all, ignore the person who told you to type it in Normal
style because Word can get confused with lots of formatting. Yes, it is preferable to use styles rather than direct font/paragraph formatting, and complex documents do challenge some printers, but putting everything in Normal style is just the opposite of what you want to do. For poetry I suggest a paragraph style with some Space Before/After and a left indent that will visually center the average line. Use line breaks at the ends of verses in a stanza, paragraph breaks only at the ends of stanzas. If you want stanzas to stay together, apply "Keep lines together" formatting to the style. Use a different style for the titles of the poems and make it "Keep with next" or even "Page break before." Display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm) and examine the pages for any anomalies that might be causing the document to print incorrectly. In particular, examine the words or lines that aren't printing correctly and make sure they aren't formatted as Hidden. If you've done all this and the poems still don't print properly, I'd guess that the problem may be with the printer driver. You might try updating the driver. -- 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. "HazelD" wrote in message ... My 88-pg. Word document (poetry manuscript) prints with random skips. Maybe a line or two, maybe a word or several words randomly, and not on every page. I was told to retype it in "Normal" style, as word can get confused with lots of formatting. Instead, I formatted a style especially for the ms. and used that. I've had the printer checked. It's ok and it works perfectly on everything but this document. Thanks for your help. -- HazelD |
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Thank you. I'm on it.
-- HazelD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, first of all, ignore the person who told you to type it in Normal style because Word can get confused with lots of formatting. Yes, it is preferable to use styles rather than direct font/paragraph formatting, and complex documents do challenge some printers, but putting everything in Normal style is just the opposite of what you want to do. For poetry I suggest a paragraph style with some Space Before/After and a left indent that will visually center the average line. Use line breaks at the ends of verses in a stanza, paragraph breaks only at the ends of stanzas. If you want stanzas to stay together, apply "Keep lines together" formatting to the style. Use a different style for the titles of the poems and make it "Keep with next" or even "Page break before." Display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm) and examine the pages for any anomalies that might be causing the document to print incorrectly. In particular, examine the words or lines that aren't printing correctly and make sure they aren't formatted as Hidden. If you've done all this and the poems still don't print properly, I'd guess that the problem may be with the printer driver. You might try updating the driver. -- 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. "HazelD" wrote in message ... My 88-pg. Word document (poetry manuscript) prints with random skips. Maybe a line or two, maybe a word or several words randomly, and not on every page. I was told to retype it in "Normal" style, as word can get confused with lots of formatting. Instead, I formatted a style especially for the ms. and used that. I've had the printer checked. It's ok and it works perfectly on everything but this document. Thanks for your help. -- HazelD |
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