Pictures not printing in Word 2000

[Stephen Glynn]

I've just copied a page from the Word MVP site and pasted it into a Word
2000 document.

The screenshots the page contains show up in Print Preview but haven't
printed.

How can I make them print and, more generally, why should Print Preview
show such a misleading version of what actually prints?

Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You're definitely looking at Print Preview and not Print Layout view? Do you
have "Drawing objects" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options?

 

[Stephen Glynn]

Yes to both questions (it's your article on Booklet Printing that I'm
trying to print, as it happens!)

Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, then I'm very sorry you're having trouble! I overlooked the fact that
it is text pasted from the Web that you're having trouble with. Three things
you might try:

1. Select each screenshot and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to make sure the graphic
is embedded in your file and not still linking to its Internet location. You
might also disable background printing and see if that helps.

2. Or, instead of pasting the text from the Web, save the page (from your
browser) using File | Save As: Web page, complete. This puts the entire Web
page, along with all its linked graphics, on your HD.

3. Print the page directly from your browser. Although IE's Print Preview
shows the "menu bar" and "status bar" as printing, they don't; all you'll
get is the text of the article, including the screen shots, with not
unreasonable margins.

 

[Stephen Glynn]

Thanks. The measures in your first suggestion have fixed it.

What does Ctrl+Shift+F9 do, exactly? And why would disabling background
printing make a difference?

Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ctrl+Shift+F9 unlinks a field. All pictures in Web pages are actually just
links to picture files stored in folders on the Web server. When you copy
the text of the page, you are copying those links. If you don't have an
active Internet connection, you won't see the pictures at all, but even if
you see them, Word may not be able to grab them fast enough to spool them to
the printer (which is why I suggested disabling background printing). When
you unlink the hyperlinks, though, the result is that the actual picture is
embedded in your file.

 

[Helen Tasky]

Thank you for this thread..I had the same problems when printing from the
MVP sites as well. I thought my printer ran out of ink or something.