lined excel table-colored text does not print

[Philomena]

Hi,
Hope someone can help me. I have weird printing problem that I can't seem to fix! Here's the story ... I am using Windows XP and Office 2003. I link excel tables into a word document (paste special/as link). There is color font in the excel table. The color always appears on the screen, but disappears when I print it to pdf or printer, but only from certain PC's. On 1 PC it prints the color font when the links have been updated on that PC. If they are updated on any other PC, the text color is lost. I've compared the settings on Word and Excel between the PC that can print the colored text and the ones that cannot. To no avail. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks,
Philomena

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day Philomena <[email protected]>,

It is possible those PCs have their print dialog /settings set up to
print only as B&W.

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Philomena reckoned:

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day Philomena <[email protected]>,

In that case, on those PC's, set Tools > Options > Print > Update
links


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[Philomena]

Hi again Steve,
I tried that but it didn't work. Also, the Update Links checkbox is not checked on the PC that the printing works ok on. Any other ideas??? This is a thorn in my side!
Thanks again,
P.

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day Philomena <[email protected]>,

I suspect two things:

1) Network references (to the gfx source) differs between machines

2) General network problems. Before publishing (sending) any files,
embed all files by breaking the links.

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[bleal]

Thanks - we also have had this problem for over a year. Microsoft was not
able to help us but this solution appears to work for us as well.