Word 2002 Printing: Some text boxes do not print.

[chungacs]

I am drawing a school plan in a Word document where i use text boxes to hold
different blocks of classrooms. For eg, Block A has 3 floors of classrooms,
so i insert 3 rows of cells to represent the classrooms into a text box. I
then format the text boxes to have no fill and no line, so only the block of
classroms show up.

After drawing all the blocks i then position them in the correct layout of
the school plan. Pls see the attached file. 'Print preview' shows all is
well - all the blocks (text boxes) show up nice and good in their correct
positions. But the printout shows one block missing, and it is always the
same block at the top of the page which does not print out. I tried printing
with another printer and it is the same.

Can anyone help me figure ou what i did wrong? TIA

 

[Graham Mayor]

Please do not post attachments - and certainly not twice!!!

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[chungacs]

Please do not post attachments - and certainly not twice!!!

Very sorry about that. I did not do it on purpose.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

FWIW, I'm seeing the same thing here. I'm also losing the bottom border on
Blok H, but that's presumably because the text box is too short. That
problem is remedied by deleting the excess paragraph marks from the table
cells in the block. Nothing I do makes Blok F print, however.

At this point I'm sure you don't want to start from scratch, but I see you
are using Word 2002. Are you aware that in Word 2000 and above you can wrap
tables without putting them in text boxes? If you put the block label in a
merged top row of each table, then you could avoid text boxes altogether.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you want someone to view a document either post it to your web space and
provide a link or in some circumstances you may be asked to post it
privately. However now that you have attached it, I have examined the
document and as Suzanne has confirmed the document doesn't print the Blok F.
I can get it to print that block by right clicking the border of the text
box that contains the table and breaking the forward link.

The document seems to be teetering on the verge of corruption and in fact
crashed Word while I was messing with the formatting to get some of the
missing bottom borders to print.

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Please do not post attachments - and certainly not twice!!!

Very sorry about that. I did not do it on purpose.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Chungacs,

As Graham points out the Blok F text box has picked up a 'linked text box' attribute that appears to be linking to itself, that is a
buglet with the text boxes and does corrupt the document.

You may be able to simply resave the file to a new file name after following the steps Graham found (right click on the text box and
break the link), but you may also want to use File=>Save As Single Page Web page, close the file, reopen it and resave as a .doc
file.

For Word 2002 that can sometimes remove the little odd bits.

As Suzanne pointed out, with Word 2002 you can use the tables without the text boxes, but one thing that you may want to consider is
replacing the 'tight' text wrapping on the text boxes with 'in front of text'. Word is working pretty hard with trying to maintain
the positions of the boxes using 'tight' when they all come together or overlap.

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I am drawing a school plan in a Word document where i use text boxes to hold
different blocks of classrooms. For eg, Block A has 3 floors of classrooms,
so i insert 3 rows of cells to represent the classrooms into a text box. I
then format the text boxes to have no fill and no line, so only the block of
classroms show up.

After drawing all the blocks i then position them in the correct layout of
the school plan. Pls see the attached file. 'Print preview' shows all is
well - all the blocks (text boxes) show up nice and good in their correct
positions. But the printout shows one block missing, and it is always the
same block at the top of the page which does not print out. I tried printing
with another printer and it is the same.

Can anyone help me figure ou what i did wrong? TIA >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[chungacs]

If you want someone to view a document either post it to your web space
and provide a link or in some circumstances you may be asked to post it
privately.

Thank you very much. I will certainly take note of this.
Also many thanks for the advice and help on my printing problem
..
However now that you have attached it, I have examined the

document and as Suzanne has confirmed the document doesn't print the Blok
F. I can get it to print that block by right clicking the border of the
text box that contains the table and breaking the forward link.

The document seems to be teetering on the verge of corruption and in fact
crashed Word while I was messing with the formatting to get some of the
missing bottom borders to print.

--
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP


<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>

Please do not post attachments - and certainly not twice!!!

Very sorry about that. I did not do it on purpose.