Word 2003 margin alignment problem

[Mxy]

I have just upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003.I have many documents
formated to print on 6x4 index cards.I am printing to a Canon i950 printer.
When trying to print with Word 2003 the text prints off the right side of
the card. If I print the card onto a full letter size page the text is
flush to the right hand margin instead of the left hand margin.Nothing in
the document has changed. This happens both with new documents created in
Word 2003 and old documents created in Word 97. Format>Paragraph>alignment
is set to LEFT. There must be some setting in Word 2003 that was not in
Word 97 that is causing the shift in margin alignment.Can anyone point me
in the right direction here?

Mxy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Obviously the printer is expecting you to feed the card in a different place
from where you're feeding it.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Check out the "Regional and Language Options" item under the Windows Control
Panel. Seems like you might have East Asian Language Support and/or the
Right to Left Languages boxes check under the Languages tab. I think you
turn them off by clicking on the Details button on that dialog and then
going to the Advanced tab of the dialog that then appears.
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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Mxy]

I trust this was not the "professional" answer from Microsoft! As you
say, obviously the printer expected the card to be inserted in a
different location. But this is the same printer as with Word 97 the
ONLY difference is Word 2003 in place of Word 97. Envelopes inserted on
the right side of the carraige print fine. How many printers have you
ever used that require you to insert index cards on the left side of the
carriage? C'mon there must be a REAL reason for this.

Mxy

 

[Mxy]

Thanks anyway but I now have the problem solved. At least it prints as
it should but I have no idea what I did to correct the original
problem.Just another example of buggy Microsoft products. But what can
one do when M$ monopolizes the market other than put up with it.

Mxy

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Maybe you turned the printer around on the desk so that what was the right
side is now the left side.

Seriously though, for future reference, I would be good to know how you did
solve he problem.

And, Suzanne does not work for Microsoft.

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Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Mxy]

Doug, thanks for your reply.I'm glad to know Suzanne does not represent
Microsoft. What I actually did was to go into page setup and delete the
6x4 card and then re-enter all the information.I had done this
previously to no avail but this time it worked.I did not reboot the
system nor did I restart Word either before or after rentering the setup
information. Maybe I did something different this time but I an not
aware of what it might have been. That's why I said I didn't know what I
had done to correct the problem.

Mxy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, everything fed from the left on my LaserJet 4. Small stock feeds
from the center of my LaserJet 4100, but unless there is a paper size for it
defined in the printer driver, it prints as if fed flush left (which can be
a nuisance). If you are using the Tools | Envelopes and Labels command,
there are settings to tell Word where to expect the envelope to be (Options
| Printing Options); sometimes Word is stubborn about saving these settings,
and some printers have more problems with it than others. If it's an Epson,
see http://www.gmayor.com/epson_envelope_orientation.htm

And note that if you had gotten an answer from Microsoft, it would probably
have been *less* useful.