Word 2004 form printing borders in drop-down fields

[DanielS]

Our group is using Word 2004 (11.1 040910) to prepare reports from
templates that are protected for forms and use drop-down menus. When
printing in Tiger 10.4.1 and in Panther 10.3.8, we _sometimes_ see
faint borders around the drop-down menu fields (but not in Text form
fields or Check box form fields). We don't want to see these faint
borders.

We've toggled Show/Hide Paragraphs, protected/unprotected the
documents, experimented with field shading prefs, but haven't found a
setting that eliminates the faint borders when printing the document.

I notice "Fixbone" is having the same problem as we are, having posted
on 6-27-05 and 7-7-05.

Anyone know how to keep these borders from appearing in the printed
document?

 

[Bruce Goldberg]

No one has offered any answers or insights...however a friend at apple
says that this is a system problem not a word problem. I use an epson
printers both at home and at work - both show the border. Hopefully a
new driver compatiable with 10.4 will solve this. I had no problems
with 10.3.9 and X.v, but i changed both the system and word at the same
time and don't know which was the culprit.
Fixbone

 

[Fixbone]

I printed some with X.v and 10.4.2...No gray outline...I think this is
a 2004 problem from my standpoint. Have you had the same problem with
X.v??

 

[DanielS]

I've used Office X since its release, with all updates, and never saw
this phenomenon until upgrading to Office 2004. A few other users in
the group, still on Office X, are not seeing the problem. Those who
have upgraded to Office 2004, running Panther or Tiger, see this
problem intermittently. I don't agree at this time that it's a system
problem, since in my experience it's only affecting Office 2005 users.
Have you toggled protection on/off and printed with any different
result?
[Warning: your document's form fields will be reset (emptied) if you
toggle protection from off to on, so you can lose data doing that.
Experiment with a copy of any important document.]
DS