Printed page does not reflect that seen in Page Layout.

[Jerry]

Greetings.

I'm having some difficulty printing. I have my bottom margin set to
..75", and everything looks OK in Page Layout; however, when I print,
the copy extends beyond the end of the page, and printing continues
past the bottom of the page as well. Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

What shows up in Print Preview?

What size paper are you printing on? If you go to File | Page Setup, does
the same size paper come up already selected?

Are you using the exact printer driver for the printer?

Exactly what version of Word and OS?

 

[Jerry]

Thanks for your reply, Daiya.

Although I had the most current printer driver, I contacted Canon,
downloaded and re-installed the driver, and that seemed to solve the
problem. What threw me off was that the problem did not occur in other
programs.

I think we're OK for now.

FYI: Word X, OS 10.3.9

Thanks again.

 

[Jerry]

Daiya:
I guess I'm not done. My page settings seem to default to US Legal, and
"any printer." When I set the latter to my Canon iP2000, the paper
setting changes to 4x6.

Obviously, I'd like to set my defaults to letter size and the
above-mentioned printer. Can you tell me how to do that?

Thanks.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hmm. I hope so.

First, Quit Word.
Then go to System Preferences, Print & Fax, and set a default paper size and
default printer there.

Relaunch Word. Did Word pick up the new settings?

If Word did not pick up the new settings, I haven't a clue how to set the
default printer. But you can set the default page size in Word by editing
the Normal template, which all new documents are based on.

To do that, *if necessary* (assuming a default Word X install):
In the Finder, navigate to Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/.
You should see a file named Normal.
Double-click it to open.
Go to File | Page Setup and set the correct paper size.
Type space backspace in the document, so that Word knows something needs to
be saved.
Save and close Normal.
Create a new blank document and see if the settings are correct.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Daiya:
I guess I'm not done. My page settings seem to default to US Legal, and
"any printer." When I set the latter to my Canon iP2000, the paper
setting changes to 4x6.

I see similar bizarre paper size changes if I dare to change the
printer in page setup too. It is one of those little tantrums that toy
computers like to display whenever a human starts getting too
confident. It is an OS X bug however. Preview pulls the same trick.

Obviously, I'd like to set my defaults to letter size and the
above-mentioned printer. Can you tell me how to do that?

Try two places. Well behaved applications respect the Mac System
Preferences » Print & Fax » Printing for Selected Printer and Default
Paper size.

Word may or may not behave well in that respect. My copy ignores System
Preferences. If yours is the same, try this:- Go through the Word open
dialog, set to open Word templates. Open ~/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Normal
Do the page set up stuff in there. Type a character, erase it again,
save it and close. Quit Word. See if the default new document is set to
your preferred printer and paper size when you next start Word.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hmm. I hope so.

First, Quit Word.
Then go to System Preferences, Print & Fax, and set a default paper size and
default printer there.

Relaunch Word. Did Word pick up the new settings?

If Word did not pick up the new settings, I haven't a clue how to set the
default printer. But you can set the default page size in Word by editing
the Normal template, which all new documents are based on.

To do that, *if necessary* (assuming a default Word X install):
In the Finder, navigate to Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/.
You should see a file named Normal.
Double-click it to open.
Go to File | Page Setup and set the correct paper size.
Type space backspace in the document, so that Word knows something needs to
be saved.
Save and close Normal.
Create a new blank document and see if the settings are correct.

Oops. I just posted similar advice assuming you were on 2004 Jerry.
The difference between Daiya's and mine is only the location of normal.

In Office 2004, Micorosft tried to put the user data in a per-user
folder, and still got it wrong. But in a far less egregious manner than
in Word v.X.

 

[Jerry]

I think it worked.
Thanks.