Failing to print text box element

[RC]

Hi,

I am running MS Word 2000 on Windows 2000.

I have a document, created from a blank document, in which the
following
odd behaviour is occurring.

I created a figure in Excel, copied and pasted it as an enhanced
metafile.
The caption for the figure I put in a text box, just below the figure.

Grouped the two items. The layout was then set to square with right
adjustment.
So it sits about half way down a page. There is a table above the
figure and
another, in-lined figure below the caption, and text to the left of it.

It looks great on screen, and in print preview. But it will not print
the
contents of my caption text box.

Drawing Objects is ticked to be included with document in
Tools|Options|Print.

If I copy the figure+text box object and paste it into a new document
by itself
it prints fine.

Help!! This is startingto drive me nuts. I have tried printing to
multiple
printers and to PDF, and tried nudging the object around as much as I
can without throwing everything else out of whack.

Thanks in advance,
Ron Crump

 

[RC]

To answer my own question, I have now gotten my document
to print.

By:
(1) creating a rectangle the same size as the figure+caption/text box
object.
(2) popping this behind the figure/caption and doing the layout
formatting
on it.
(3) ungrouping the figure/caption and leaving the two objects (figure
and textbox) sat on top of the rectangle. The layout settings of these
two objects are now both "in f

 

[Beth Melton]

The behavior you are encountering is typically caused by data getting
sent to your printer correctly. I've encountered this several times
when working with data in various layers of the document. If this
should happen again try going to Tools/Options/Print and turning off
"Background printing".

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