Re: MS Word and cross-platform printing

["Linda K. Sherman" <linsherm -at- GTE -dot- NET>]

I ran into an identical problem once. The Mac and PC versions of Word
seem to handle line spacing differently. I wasn't using Times NR, so I
don't think the font has anything to do with it.

What I did was go into the Mac version, find all the automatic page
breaks, change them to manual (hard) page breaks, and then export the
file.

My Word for Mac skills are a bit rusty, but I think you can do a
Replace... using the search-for-format feature to find page breaks and
replace them with hard page breaks.

Michael Hacker wrote:
>
> I used Times New Roman (not Times) in a 150-page Word document thinking
> that this font would produce identical printed results when printed using a
> Mac or PC. However,the output on our HP LaserJet 4000 is identical
> horizontally but not vertically. On some pages printed using a PC one or
> two extra lines fit on a page. The result is that the page numbers in the
> index and table of contents are correct when printed using a Mac (I used a
> Mac to produce the document), but they're out of sync when printed using a
> PC. Argghhh!
>
> Eventually, we will distribute this document online so that users can
> download and print it. Aside from going to PDF, does anyone have any ideas
> to correct this problem?
>
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