Printer selection screws up layout (Word 2003)

J

jan.hannemann

An issue that's been bothering my for a while: I've got various
printers installed, and when I change printers, my current layout gets
screwed up. E.g., if I have a document exaclty X pages long, it's X+(a
few lines) after changing to another printer, like the Adobe PDF
writer.

There seem to be minute difference in the printer settings, but I
haven't been able to track them down.

Any suggestions?
 
A

ANONYMOUS

It could be page layout and/or Page Size. For example A4 (as used in
the
UK) is larger than Letter (as used in the USA)

Adobe's default is Letter while your printer's default might be A4 or
vice versa.
 
B

Beth Melton

This is actually 'normal' behavior. Each printer prints different and
each has its own printable area. Where a "document page" ends and
another begins depends on the printer driver that is installed.

It's due to this that that's it's not recommended that manual page
breaks be used in Word documents. Instead, one should utilize the
pagination options found under Format/Paragraph. On the "Line and Page
Breaks" tab you can determine what paragraphs must fall on the same
page (Keep with next), and whether or not an entire paragraph must
stay on the same page (Keep lines together).

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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