font box in picture does not display or print correctly for word 2004

[tcm]

After editing a font box in a picture, word 2004 displays it like a
black box and prints it the same way. But if it is double clicked and
open again in the editing window, the words can be seen again.
If the document is opened in word x, all things go fine - the font
boxes can be displayed and printed correctly. Strange!
I have another machine with word 2004 installed. Different problems
occur. Font boxes can be edited without changing to black boxes but
extra pagebreaks appear occasionally. Very Strange!
Anyone has similar problems?

 

[John McGhie]

That sounds like a layering issue. The document layers are in a different
order in Word 2004. Try selecting the object and using "Send to Back" or
"Bring to Front". It may also be a colour reversal on the Fill. Try
selecting the object and setting the Fill to "none".

I am assuming, by the way, that you are talking about "Text Boxes"?

Your other problem sounds like a difference between the printer drivers. I
am assuming that by "pagebreaks" you mean "a new page starts at a different
place" rather than extra page break characters appearing in the document?

If that is the case, try using the same printer driver for both machines.
Word derives the measurements for documents and fonts from the printer
driver. Make sure you are actually formatting the document for then
correctly-named printer in the File>Print dialog.

Hope this helps

After editing a font box in a picture, word 2004 displays it like a
black box and prints it the same way. But if it is double clicked and
open again in the editing window, the words can be seen again.
If the document is opened in word x, all things go fine - the font
boxes can be displayed and printed correctly. Strange!
I have another machine with word 2004 installed. Different problems
occur. Font boxes can be edited without changing to black boxes but
extra pagebreaks appear occasionally. Very Strange!
Anyone has similar problems?

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[tcm]

That sounds like a layering issue. The document layers are in a different
order in Word 2004. Try selecting the object and using "Send to Back" or
"Bring to Front". It may also be a colour reversal on the Fill. Try
selecting the object and setting the Fill to "none".

I am assuming, by the way, that you are talking about "Text Boxes"?

Your other problem sounds like a difference between the printer drivers. I
am assuming that by "pagebreaks" you mean "a new page starts at a different
place" rather than extra page break characters appearing in the document?

If that is the case, try using the same printer driver for both machines.
Word derives the measurements for documents and fonts from the printer
driver. Make sure you are actually formatting the document for then
correctly-named printer in the File>Print dialog.

Hope this helps

Thank you for your response.
I have tried your suggestions but they don't help.
After some trials, I can describe the problem more clearly. The text
boxes will display and print with a BLACK BACKGROUND after editing in
word 2004. I have deliberately changed the text colour in the boxes
and the correct colour just printed on the ghostly black background.
Why 'ghostly'? Because the black background only occurs in word 2004,
it will disappear in a copy opened in word X (or in the editing window
of word 2004 itself).
The problem does not repeat for all fonts. If the font of the text box
is changed to Symbol (or some other font, I guess), everything goes
fine.
It's HARD to keep switching between 2004 and X in order to avoid the
problem. But that's my only surviving way before the resolution.

 

[Sleepy]

I think Im having the same problems here. My document has two objects
which are pasted as pictures copied from power point. When Zoomed out
say 75% the fonts display normally. When zoomed in 150% or more the
fonts turn to black fill and this is also the way it prints. These
documents were originally created in Word X. Ive noticed this on a
number of documents and it would be allot of work to redo these images.
An easy solution would be nice. I tried to attach the sample screen
shots to this post.

cheers
mike