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Subject:Re: Help! Word 7 and Printing From:Reuven Frank <reuven -at- E-AND-C -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:27:14 +0200
I hope this works!
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From: Barb Ostapina
Sent: Wed, 15 Jul.98 18:37 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Help! Word 7 and Printing
Mornin' all!
I've searched the archives... I've searched the Microsoft site... I've
searched Woody Leonhard's site...
Now I'm looking over my shoulder at a deadline and I still don't have the
answer. I hope someone here can help in a hurry.
I'm trying to print a Word 7 document to either an HP 4/4M printer or to a
print file. The document is filled with screen shots all linked to the
document. Everything goes well until I get to page 62 (of a total of 107
pages). No matter how I try to print page 62 (as part of the whole document
or by itself), when Word gets there it simply shuts down. No error message,
no nothing.
Page 62 has 2 graphics, both bmp's of buttons in a Windows application.
Are the graphics linked as bmp's or wmf's?
Try exporting them as wmf's and linking the converted files.
I've tried taking one or both out. Once I was able to print the page on a
different printer, but that printer distorts some of the other fonts in the
document. Once, when I took one picture out, I was able to print the page
on the 4/4M, but no more. Now, when I've deleted one picture and tried to
print on the 4/4M, I get a dozen pages of mostly blank paper with periodic
hieroglyphics.
Go to page layout view.
Set options to "view field codes" and All (i.e.--hidden text, ref marks, *everything*)
Scan S-L-O-W-L-Y through the document looking for out of place, extraneous fields.
Maybe some hidden text, or something on a different "layer" (like a watermark).
Pay careful attention to the Header/Footer. Experience tells me that problems often lurk there.
Have you tried copying the troublesome pagfe to a new file and printing it from there?
Can anybody point me to a solution?
Best of Luck
Many thanks,
--B
barb -dot- ostapina -at- metromail -dot- com
