Hi Doug:
That's not "weirdness" that's "working as designed"
A few minutes ago I put up a long post to a different question that explains
things: but basically, you *expect* Print Preview and Page Layout view to be
different: Print Preview is using the real metrics from the fonts and the
printer to produce a display as accurate as the screen can get it.
VPC does run like molasses: OS X never seems to be able to give it better
than a 350 MHz CPU to play with
I've never figured out exactly WHY that
is. Virtual PC running on a PC (it's built-in to the next version of
Windows) runs at almost full processor speed.
Make sure your Compatibility Options are set correctly. There is one that
suppresses space above at the top of the page, or not. Whichever way you
have set that, you need to be expecting it and have adjusted your styles
accordingly.
I set that option OFF. I then set my Heading styles to have space above and
my body styles to have space below. That automatically gives me an even top
margin (space above is correctly suppressed all the time).
That relies on the fact that Word will suppress Space Above at the top of
the page provided that WORD threw the paragraph. It will PRINT the space
above if YOU threw the paragraph. So: after a soft (automatic) page break,
you will get the space above correctly suppressed: after a hard page break,
you won't.
That's another reason for me STRONGLY recommending that people avoid manual
page breaks. Use Keep Together and Keep With Next instead and Word will
always correctly suppress blank space at the top of a page.
Cheers
My Word weirdness continues! I've just noticed that Print Preview
doesn't necessarily break pages the same as Page Layout view. On the
very first page of my document, an extra line appears on the page 1
that is on page 2 in Page Layout view. To further add to the weirdness,
when I print to PDF, it prints *with* that line on page 2, so it prints
like Page Layout view and not like Print Preview. Will the fun never
end!?!
For what it's worth, I've moved the document into Word for Windows in
Virtual PC. VPC runs like molasses, but at it's consistent (or so it
seems).
Doug
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