missing first page

[Wendy]

My office has about 50 Word documents we use as a Master set that all
have the same problem: when you go to print, it prints pages 2-end
instead of including the 1st page. When printing, I have to tell the
printer to print the specific range (i.e., 1-6) to get all of the
pages.

I'm looking for a permanent fix. I've copied and pasted into a new
document, but I get the same result. I've copied and pasted special
as RTF, but still no success. The only way I can paste into a new
document and have all pages print is to paste special as unformatted.
I've saved as Word 95, Word 2.x.

As I understand, the original documents came from a Macintosh years
ago. Now, we use nothing but Windows. Short of OCRing all of the
documents or pasting as unformatted text and having to reformat, how
can I get these documents to print correctly without having to specify
the page range?

Thanks.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Wendy,

I've copied and pasted into a new
document, but I get the same result. I've copied and pasted special
as RTF, but still no success. The only way I can paste into a new
document and have all pages print is to paste special as unformatted.
I've saved as Word 95, Word 2.x.

Which version of Word do you have?

Have you tried round-tripping to HTML?

When you've copied/pasted were you very careful to NOT include the last
paragraph mark, or any section breaks? If you just copied/pasted
everything, try again leaving those things out.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Wendy]

Amazing! I don't know what round-tripping to HTML means, but copying
and pasting all but the last paragraph mark works. We've been
struggling with this as a company over the past 10 years. Thanks!

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Wendy,

I don't know what round-tripping to HTML means

Ah, sorry about the "shorthand". It means to save in HTML
format (as a web page), close, then re-open and save again
as a Word document

but copying
and pasting all but the last paragraph mark works.

Great! Thanks for confirming that for me

Files converted from another format often don't convert
completely/correctly. This leaves "junk" in the area of the
document where Word manages things like page layout.
Copy/paste without the last paragraph mark leaves that
stuff behind...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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