weird printing problem

[taylor.se]

I have a worksheet that formatted with text in each cell, left aligned
and vertically aligned to the top. It is scaled to 86%. The text is set
to wrap. I also set it to indent 1 space. (But I have tried it without
the indent, and it has the same problem described below.)

On more than one printer, when I print, each line within a cell of
wrapped text moves more to the left until it eventually moves out of
the cell if there are enough lines. Excel's print preview shows it
correctly. But when I print it (or save it as a .pdf), this occurs.

I'm on OS X 10.4.2 and have all updates to Office.

Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I'm on OS X 10.4.2 and have all updates to Office.

Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.

this is a known problem with XL, MacOS, and certain printer drivers
(though I don't know whether the root cause is known).

First, make sure the printer drivers are updated. Next, try changing the
setting in the Print Quality setting in the File/Page Setup/Page tab. I
don't recall at the moment if Normal, High, or a different setting is
the one that solves this.

 

[taylor.se]

Thank you very much, JE McGimpsey.

The answer is that the Print Quality has to be set to High. That solved
the problem. Thanks.