Deleting blank page with paragraph mark

[Paul Berkowitz]

The email address you uses here _is_ a valid email address: .name is a
newish domain suffix, like .com, .org, .edu, etc. - John nabbed one.

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[John McGhie]

Hi Stan:

It's in the bit you just quoted (e-mail address removed) is perfectly valid, as
Paul pointed out.

Cheers

Thank you, John, and I will - but I can't see a valid email address for
you.

Stan
(e-mail address removed)

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[Stan The Man]

Hi Stan:

It's in the bit you just quoted (e-mail address removed) is perfectly valid, as
Paul pointed out.

I did send it by email, John - several hours ago - but couldn't work
out where to put the password. It hasn't bounced back though.

Stan

 

[Clive Huggan]

I did send it by email, John - several hours ago - but couldn't work
out where to put the password. It hasn't bounced back though.

Stan

When it does come back, Stan, put the "password" in the subject line.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Stan The Man]

When it does come back, Stan, put the "password" in the subject line.

It's been a couple of days so I guess it must have got through without
the password....

Stan

 

[Beth Rosengard]

It's been a couple of days so I guess it must have got through without
the password....

Stan

Or it went directly to John's junk mail folder. You might want to resend
with the password in the subject line.

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[John McGhie]

No, it DIDN'T go into my junk mail folder, and I sent Stan his answer some
minutes after his email arrived.

Stan, go look in your inbox. Or... Don't tell me... Was YOUR email address
invalid??

Cheers

Or it went directly to John's junk mail folder. You might want to resend
with the password in the subject line.

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[Stan The Man]

Dammit, John - I had my mail forwarding turned off for that address: I
do apologise. I have just turned it back on hoping to pick your mail up
retrospectively but no joy.

Would you care to post your reply here - maybe leaving out the worst of
the insults about my competence (which we can now take as proven)?

Thanks again.

;-) Stan

 

[John McGhie]

Repeating to Newsgroup...

Hi Stan:

Your problem is not the document.

That is not throwing a blank page here.

Your problem is your printer driver. The printer driver holds various
settings. The one I would suspect is "Banner Page". However, they are all
different, so even if you told me which printer you were using, I still
couldn't help you further with that.

Your document has a bottom margin of 0. This should not matter, but the
printer may be happier if you set that to one centimetre (three quarters of
an inch) to prevent it from thinking that you "might" want to put something
on the next page.

Having a footer depth of 0 may cause a sloppily-written printer driver to
throw a new page in order to fit a 12 point paragraph on the next page, only
to then discover that there is no footer to print anyway (it should check
for text first, and then for the space to put it...)

But I can't see anything wrong with your document. I think your printer
driver is throwing a blank sheet after the last page.

Hope this helps

Hoping this gets through to you, John since I haven't a clue about
how/where to use the password you gave me...

Best regards--and thanks for all your help in the newsgroups.

Stan



Dammit, John - I had my mail forwarding turned off for that address: I
do apologise. I have just turned it back on hoping to pick your mail up
retrospectively but no joy.

Would you care to post your reply here - maybe leaving out the worst of
the insults about my competence (which we can now take as proven)?

Thanks again.

;-) Stan

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[Stan The Man]

Thanks, John. Maybe the document reflows somewhat on your computer
without the assigned fonts? I do know for certain that on mine, in Page
Layout mode, there is a blank page 2, with only a paragraph mark on it.

I don't have anything out-of-the-ordinary selected in my printer driver
(HP CP1700 Colour Inkjet), and certainly not Banner Page, which I've
never even seen let alone used. This prints to standard A4 sheets of
Avery labels - and the printer is simply printing a blank page because
it's there in the document. Well, it is here, anyway. If I could stop
that blank page displaying then the printer wouldn't print it.

Stan

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Stan:

That document "couldn't" have reflowed on my computer: there was heaps of
space left at the bottom of the page. No change in font is going to eat
that much space: there was more than two centimetres white space at the
bottom.

Then again, I assumed you were printing to "Letter" paper because I didn't
know where you are. If you *are* printing to Letter paper whilst formatted
for A4, that may be your problem. A4 is longer than letter.

Cheers

Thanks, John. Maybe the document reflows somewhat on your computer
without the assigned fonts? I do know for certain that on mine, in Page
Layout mode, there is a blank page 2, with only a paragraph mark on it.

I don't have anything out-of-the-ordinary selected in my printer driver
(HP CP1700 Colour Inkjet), and certainly not Banner Page, which I've
never even seen let alone used. This prints to standard A4 sheets of
Avery labels - and the printer is simply printing a blank page because
it's there in the document. Well, it is here, anyway. If I could stop
that blank page displaying then the printer wouldn't print it.

Stan

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[Stan The Man]

Somehow, John, the document you are describing is different from the
one I sent you. On departure, it was called 'DisplayCard_labels1' and
was set up as an A4 document printing to A4 paper. And on screen, it
had zero white space at the bottom. The document you are describing is
one that I have never seen before.

Stan ('Confused' of London)

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Stan:

Send me another copy. Use the password "stan{U_WT$Rc" and I will take
another look. From what I saw, there was substantial white space at the
bottom of each page.

Cheers

Somehow, John, the document you are describing is different from the
one I sent you. On departure, it was called 'DisplayCard_labels1' and
was set up as an A4 document printing to A4 paper. And on screen, it
had zero white space at the bottom. The document you are describing is
one that I have never seen before.

Stan ('Confused' of London)

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[John McGhie]

Hi Simon:

Here your document has four pages. Only page 3 is full, the other three
have generous white space at the bottom of each page.

It is formatted for US Letter paper size. The margins are set to 0.96 cm
top, 0 bottom and 0.61 cm each side. These are very odd margins. If I were
you I would set the margins to 1 cm all round, because your printer won't
print to 0 cm at the bottom of the page.

I will reformat this for A4 and send it back to you. Reformatted for A4
paper, you will see it now has 3-1/2 pages.

I think you may need to delete your normal template. Close Word and rename
the normal template. Word will create a new one when it restarts. Use a
search of your hard disk to make sure you rename every copy of Normal,
because there can be more than one and it is important to rename the one
Word is actually using. If it doesn't cure the problem, you can always
rename everything back again.

You will note that I have adjusted the column widths to fit within the
printable margins of the new A4 paper size. You may need to re-align things
as a result.

Use Word>Preferences>View>Text Boundaries to show you where the text
boundaries of the document are. If you allow text to spill outside the
marked boundaries, you can expect trouble and you will get it.

I also notice that the document is attached to a template from Word 98 Fax
and Letter Wizard. I would not use that: it was well known for causing
problems on the PC.

Cheers

Somehow, John, the document you are describing is different from the
one I sent you. On departure, it was called 'DisplayCard_labels1' and
was set up as an A4 document printing to A4 paper. And on screen, it
had zero white space at the bottom. The document you are describing is
one that I have never seen before.

Stan ('Confused' of London)

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