Landscape/profile problems
grin_king
Currently having problems with page orientations in Word
2002. The problem is this :
If you change a page in a document to landscape
orientation, with the previous pages in Portrait, if you
change pages back to portrait further down in the
document, the pages go back to Porttrait shape - BUT...
the text stays with landscape formatting - so the text is
cut off 2/3 of the way down the page.
The method I have used to replicate this problem is :
1) Paste a load of text from a TXT document so there's no
formatting involved.
2) Scrolled down a page or two > Page Setup > Landscape,
applied to "this point forward"
3) Scrolled down another couple of pages, and did the same
thing, except changed the orientation back to Portatrait
and applied to "From this point forward" once again.
4) Print Preview - shows Portatrait pages below the
Landscape pages with only 2/3 of a page of text.
We are running Windows 2000 with SP3, with MS Office XP
with currently no service packs (currently
organising/testing a rollout package to solve that
particular issue), however, I have tested this on a test
machine with Office XP SP2 installed, and continue to have
the same problem.
We use HP printers, and in this case, mostly the Laserjet
8000 model - however, it appears to do it on other models
also.
I have spent some time researching this, trying to find a
solution, and have been unable to find anything related to
this. Found a couple of articles similar to this on
support.microsoft.com, but none that were exactly the
same - and none of the solutions or workarounds offered in
those articles worked.
Any constructive suggestions/hints/tips/comments most
welcome...
Suzanne S. Barnhill
LaserJets. One workaround is to use the Windows driver instead, but you lost
some features this way. The "margin fix" drivers at
http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/index.html reportedly solve the problem.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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"grin_king" <b.ma...@gns.cri.nz> wrote in message
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grin_king
check it out... :)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbar...@mvps.org> wrote in message
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grin_king
For what it's worth - the drivers you pointed me to didn't help in this
situation :(
At first they didn't - then I realised I had stuffed up and downloaded the
"Roaming Profile" fix drivers instead of the "Margin Fix" drivers.
Downloaded and installed those - with the same result...
The PostScript drivers work fine. unfortunately, being a Research Institute
that I am working for, they require quite a bit of graphics as well as text
in a lot of their print-jobs.... PS drivers are, obviously, not the best for
this kind of printing. You can, at least, get a full print-out with them...
In the meantime - tried the Windows version of the driver, and yes, it too
works... so we will most likely be sticking with that for now... although
losing the Duplex functionality of the printer is also less than
desirable...I will be checking the Windows Update site tomorrow to see if
there's a newer version of the MS driver available, to see if we can get a
bit more functionality out of the driver, rather than just being able to
select paper source and size :-/
Are you aware whether or not this issue is being addressed ?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbar...@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
the problem entirely at HP's door, and the beta drivers seem to be the only
crumb HP have offered.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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