As I type, all letters are appearing on top of each other! help?

[John G]

And all the description of your problem disappeared too.
Wot's Your Real Problem?

 

[Jackpot]

As I type, all the letters are appearing on the page on top of each other.
That was my problem. I closed down Word and opened it again and the problem
had gone away, so don't bother yourself anymore, thanks John G

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Part of the problem in addressing a firm fix for this 'squished' or 'squashed' text issue has been that folks who report, rarely
come back with
any additional information on what worked when it went away

In this case it would appear that Word deleted whatever temp
files that seem to be involved in this when you closed and reopened it.

[It's not that MS hasn't tried to put out some generic 'try this to fix print problems in Word' articles
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826845&FR=1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826862&FR=1 ]

It's apparently a glitch that involves Word temp files that causes
Word (mainly in 2003) to lose track of the printer it's supposed to be
using (as listed in File=>Print) and seems to be related to
add-ins and temp files of Word.

What seems to help temporarily :

A. Going to File=>Print and
changing the printer to another one (and back)
will often clear it temporarily,

-or-

B. Switching fonts on the affected text

*BUT* before doing that

C. Clearing out old temp files will more likely be a suitable fix but it's also not permanent in some cases.

1. Close Word.
2. Cleanup and delete all left over
Word temp files using Start=>Search and the
search string of
~$*.*;*.tmp

3. Restart Word and open the same document you were
working on.

========
As I type, all the letters are appearing on the page on top of each other.
That was my problem. I closed down Word and opened it again and the problem
had gone away>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Jackpot]

Dear Bob Buckland
Thank you for your help. I have copied & pasted your reply to save in case
this happens again. many thanks, Jackpot

 

[WarriorForge]

For me the problem occurred when I had one document open, opened a second one
and then pasted some separate data to the second document and then printed
out the second document. I then saved the second document and closed it. I
then noticed that all of the text on the first document had been squished. I
exited that document without saving and then went back in and it was still
squished! What was wierd was that when looking in the formatting window, the
text appeared normal. I tried changing font and size, but to no avail. The
changing printer suggestion below by Bob worked like a charm. Thanks!

Dear Bob Buckland
Thank you for your help. I have copied & pasted your reply to save in case
this happens again. many thanks, Jackpot

Part of the problem in addressing a firm fix for this 'squished' or 'squashed' text issue has been that folks who report, rarely
come back with
any additional information on what worked when it went away

In this case it would appear that Word deleted whatever temp
files that seem to be involved in this when you closed and reopened it.

[It's not that MS hasn't tried to put out some generic 'try this to fix print problems in Word' articles
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826845&FR=1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826862&FR=1 ]

It's apparently a glitch that involves Word temp files that causes
Word (mainly in 2003) to lose track of the printer it's supposed to be
using (as listed in File=>Print) and seems to be related to
add-ins and temp files of Word.

What seems to help temporarily :

A. Going to File=>Print and
changing the printer to another one (and back)
will often clear it temporarily,

-or-

B. Switching fonts on the affected text

*BUT* before doing that

C. Clearing out old temp files will more likely be a suitable fix but it's also not permanent in some cases.

1. Close Word.
2. Cleanup and delete all left over
Word temp files using Start=>Search and the
search string of
~$*.*;*.tmp

3. Restart Word and open the same document you were
working on.

========
As I type, all the letters are appearing on the page on top of each other.
That was my problem. I closed down Word and opened it again and the problem
had gone away>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx