Strange printing behavior

[Dave Fritzinger]

I just saw something in Word 2004 (with all updates, run on a PMG5/
dual 2.0, revA, with 2 GB memory, running OSX.4.10, with all updates)
that I have never seen before. I have a 6.8 Meg document in that I use
as a lab notebook to keep track of the experiments, etc. that I am
doing. Since this file also contains results, it contains a number of
graphics, including jpeg files and pasted tables and graphs from
Excel. Today, I wanted to print a selection from this document, which
contains a Word generated table, and some text with 2 small graphics.
I selected print from the menu, and then selected "print selection"
from the print dialog box, which usually works when I want to do
this sort of thing. Instead, what I saw this time was a dialog box
saying "The document is too large for word to handle", with only an
"OK" button. When I clicked on this button, Word froze (giving me the
"beachball of death"), and started to use a large amount of system
resources. My only way out of this was to force quit. I tried this
multiple times, with the same result. Thinking there may have been
something funny in the file, I copied everything to a new file, tried
the same thing, and got the same result. Finally, I was able to copy
the table and text to another file, and I could print that. Can anyone
tell me what is going on? This is a problem I have never seen before.

Thanks in advance,

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Dave -

It sounds like you may be dealing with a corrupt doc. If it's an important
one make sure you have a backup

You "almost" did the right thing with the copy/paste effort, but from your
description you may have copied one character too many. Try this:

Cmd+A to Select All, then Shift+LeftArrow to de-select the last ¶,
copy/paste to a new blank doc & save. See if that clears things up. If it
doesn't it might indicate that one or more of the elements *within* the doc
are corrupt. In that case you've already narrowed it down to the content in
a certain area (the selection you tried to print), but there could be other
bummed objects as well. You'll know more after trying my suggestion

Just FYI - this is not at all uncommon in docs that are revised repeatedly
and/or extensively. This is especially true if there's been a lot of
reorganization (cutting & pasting, drag & drop, lots of objects, etc.).

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 10/27/07 3:37 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Dave Fritzinger"

I just saw something in Word 2004 (with all updates, run on a PMG5/
dual 2.0, revA, with 2 GB memory, running OSX.4.10, with all updates)
that I have never seen before. I have a 6.8 Meg document in that I use
as a lab notebook to keep track of the experiments, etc. that I am
doing. Since this file also contains results, it contains a number of
graphics, including jpeg files and pasted tables and graphs from
Excel. Today, I wanted to print a selection from this document, which
contains a Word generated table, and some text with 2 small graphics.
I selected print from the menu, and then selected "print selection"
from the print dialog box, which usually works when I want to do
this sort of thing. Instead, what I saw this time was a dialog box
saying "The document is too large for word to handle", with only an
"OK" button. When I clicked on this button, Word froze (giving me the
"beachball of death"), and started to use a large amount of system
resources. My only way out of this was to force quit. I tried this
multiple times, with the same result. Thinking there may have been
something funny in the file, I copied everything to a new file, tried
the same thing, and got the same result. Finally, I was able to copy
the table and text to another file, and I could print that. Can anyone
tell me what is going on? This is a problem I have never seen before.

Thanks in advance,