Every ther sentence is bold...

[your-it]

I am using office professional 2k. I printed a document today and every
other sentence was bold faced even though I didn't activate the bold while
writting the doc. Uninstalled MS Office and re-installed it as a last
resort still the same problem. Tried typing a sample doc with the same
result every other sentence is bold and when the cursor is in / on that
sentence the bold icon is not active.

Can any one help?
Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This usually turns out to be a printer issue.

 

[your-it]

Hi Suzanne, went to the hp website and checked drivers for my product and I
have the latest drivers. Only other option I guess is to re-calibrate the
printer I'm thinking that this will not help but I am going to try it any way.
I'll let you know what the results are

 

[your-it]

Hi Suzanne, I re-calibrated the printer and printed a test page which had the
same result - every other sentence is bold / bolder than the previous.
The bold sentences start with the first sentence and continue at the odd
numbered sentences - 1,3,5,7,9, ect.
Doesn't seem to matter what I try, same result every other sentence is
bolder than the even numbered sentences.

Thanks for the suggestion it was worth trying.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the test page prints this way, then it is clearly a printer issue, since
the test page has nothing to do with Word.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

Do you get the same result, every other line being bold (or do you actually
mean that every other _sentence_ is bold), if you print a document created
in Notepad?

What is the manufacturer and model of the printer you used? What is the
source of the printer driver? (CD that came with the printer, download form
printer maker's web site, driver installed by Windows, ...)

 

[your-it]

Hi Tom,
It is every other sentence in the documents i've printed in Word of Office
pro 2k.
I don't use notepad except to view doc.'s

 

[your-it]

Hi Suzanne,
The test page printed fine, I guess I'll try Toms suggestion and see if that
works.
Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You're contradicting yourself. You wrote, "I re-calibrated the printer and
printed a test page which had the same result - every other sentence is bold
/ bolder than the previous." So which is it? The test page printed fine, or
it had every other line bold?

 

[your-it]

Hi Tom,
I opened the doc in notepad, there was a lot of code there above and below
the sentence. So I opened the doc in word pad, it appeared to be OK.
I printed it and got the same result.
I then (while it was open in word pad)modified the doc by removing the extra
spacing since there was double spacing between the sentences (for
appearances) and printed the doc. The results were a little better,the
bolder sentences were reduced to three or four out of thirteen .
As for location by line the bolder lines were located at lines: 6, 10, 11,
16 of a 19 line doc.
I then closed those doc's and opened a new word doc re-wrote the doc as i
normally would and printed it. The results were as follows: lines 1, 5, 6,
10, 13, 14, 17,18 were bold/bolder than the normal- other lines.
I don't know what is causing this problem but it looks like I'll just have
to live with it.
If anyone has any other ideas please let me know.

Thanks though for everyones help!!

 

[Terry Farrell]

Is this just one document or any document?

Try opening a document, use Ctrl+A to SelectAll and then check in Format
Fonts that there is no bold attribute and the font colour is set to AUTO. If
it still recurs, try that again and set the font colour to BLACK.

What happens?

Terry

 

[your-it]

Hi Suzanne,
Sorry I didn't explain better. My printer has a tool box program that came
with it which allows me to clean the print cartriges, calibrate the
printer,print a test page.
When I printed a test page from the tool box , the test page printed OK
although this test page has no sentences. It prints several lines that start
bold and fade to nothing that is part of the test page along with a butterfly.
Anyway, that test page printed fine so I opened word and typed several
sentences in the same format as the doc that I had problems with. It printed
with the same result - every other line bolder than the normal print - other
lines.

Yesterday I opened word and retyped the doc that is giving me problems in
the format that I usually work with which is : arial 12 pt, indent left .3
right .3, first line indent .5, spacing before and after is 0, line spacing
is 1.5, margins are flush left, windows orphan control, font color is auto
which is black.

Result was the same kind of - with this doc not every other sentence was
bolder (1,3,5,7, ect...) this doc it varied - 4 sentences out of thirteen.

If I count lines, the location of the bolder lines in this doc are at lines
6, 10, 11, 16 of a 19 line document.

Sorry for the mis communication on my part.

I've resigned myself to the likelyhood that the problem can't be recified.

Once again Thanks !!

 

[your-it]

Hi Terry,
Any document. The font was set to automatic so I changed it to black, no
difference except as to the location of the bolder sentences which now are :
line/ sentence 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 of a 11 line/ sentence document.
Cleaned the print cartridges little differance when a document is printed
bolder lines/sentences were the same.

Thanks to all for the advice, guess I'll just have to live with it.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Go to Start, Printers & Faxes dialog. Right-click on the printer icon and
select Properties. Click Test Print from this dialog. Does this print OK?

Terry

 

[your-it]

Hi Terry,
Yes this test page printed just fine.

Go to Start, Printers & Faxes dialog. Right-click on the printer icon and
select Properties. Click Test Print from this dialog. Does this print OK?

Terry

 

[Terry Farrell]

Start Word in Safe Mode and test again. From Start, Run, type in

winword /a

and press enter. Word opens in Safe Mode. Now open one of your documents and
test print it. Does it still produce uneven lines?

Terry

 

[your-it]

Hi Terry,
Tried your suggestion didn't help.
I printed a sample doc that contained 8 sentences at 1 and 1/2 line spacing.
The bolder sentences are: 1, 2, 5, 6.
I guess I'll just have to live with it.
Thanks for the advice though!!

 

[Tom Ferguson]

Sorry to be so ling replying.

Possibly this is a problem with the printer's ink-feed system. Try attaching
a different printer (possibly you could borrow one from someone [?]) and
testing.