A new printing issue

[cfw0047]

Version: v.X Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Initially, my issue was that Word was not printing certain documents and printing others. Printing in other programs (even within Office) is fine. Newly created documents print just fine. The work-around appeared to be to cut and paste the text into a new document.

However, if I try to cut and paste the text from a document that does not print (printer only outputs a blank page) to a new document, the new document does not print the pasted text. It will print "original" text - i.e., text I just typed in, but it will not print out the pasted text.

Am I going to have to re-create all my documents (of which there are several)? Has anyone heard of this issue before and if so, were you able to solve it?

 

[CyberTaz]

It's starting to sound like you may be dealing with some corrupt documents.
Try the methods suggested on this page beginning with #2 - basically the
same as what you've tried as far as the copy/paste but it is most imperative
that the last ¶ *not* be included when you copy.

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

 

[cfw0047]

Bob,

I think I've got it worked out - it seems some of the formatting of my documents has caused the corruption. However, if I open the document in TextEdit (not copy it to Text Edit, but open it from Text Edit) I can copy the text into a new Word document and print after doing some minor corrections.

sigh* still a pain in the butt, however, much better than having to re-type the documents.

Thank you very much for helping me find a work around.

Chris

 

[CyberTaz]

If you use the technique described on the web page & paste into a new Word
document you should retain [most] of your formatting with 5 keystrokes:

Command+A = 'select all'
Shift+Left Arrow = 'deselect last ¶'
Command+C = 'copy'
Command+N = 'create a new blank document'
Comman+V = 'paste'

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac