text in tables in word

[Rachel Barlow]

When I print a document which is on a landscape table in Word XP, the text
gets cut off. I have checked the print preview and it looks fine but when
the hard copy has printed there are letters missing at the end of each
collumn. This is an old document that gets overtyped every month (it has
always printed off fine in the past), however I have recently upgraded to XP
and think this might be something to do with it. Can anybody help please?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

This can happen for a variety of reasons. Has the printer changed? How close
to the edge of the paper are the cut off letters occurring?

When you say "upgraded to XP," am I correct that you mean you upgraded to
Windows XP, or do you mean that you upgraded to Office XP?

If you upgraded to Windows XP, this means that you're using a new printer
driver, which can affect how close to the edge you can print.

 

[Cindy M.]

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When I print a document which is on a landscape table in Word XP, the text
gets cut off. I have checked the print preview and it looks fine but when
the hard copy has printed there are letters missing at the end of each
collumn. This is an old document that gets overtyped every month (it has
always printed off fine in the past), however I have recently upgraded to XP
and think this might be something to do with it.

My guess is that your guess is on target The internal structures of the
table have probably been damaged... Here are a couple of things you can try (on
a copy of the original!)

1. Save as a web page, close, re-open, save again as a document.

2. Select the table. Table/Convert/Table to text. Then Table/Convert/Text to
table. You'll lose the formatting, but this should recover the structure.

3. (Assumes this is a simple table with no paragraphs). Copy the table to
Excel. Copy the Excel cells back into Word.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I saw this happen between versions in a document that had a very full, busy
table at full margin width. IIRC, I had to reduce the table width just a
hair (0.01" perhaps) to make it work right. Increasing the cell margins
might work, too.