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Word 2003 - different pagination on different documents
I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out
word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Thanks Susanne. I’ll send them along via email.
I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Word 2003 - different pagination on different documents
I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was
about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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I've already had the user delete her Normal and have Word recreate
it. We get the same outcome. I also noticed the (Asian) Chinese (PRC) font reference in the problem doc after I email them and was trying to figure out how to remove it. But after I closed down Word and open the docs again, now I can see the Asian font reference in both good and bad docs. Very strange. I feel like I'm entering the Word Flackyness zone. (A place I've spent ALOT of time in over the past few years.) If you look at File/Properties/Summary in the problem doc you can see the original user's name see she's got Asian characters in the 'Company' field. The good doc does not have that. Maybe the user has some additional Asian language add-ons loaded into Word? I'm going to check on that. Aaron On Sep 19, 3:34*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. *I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. *Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. *It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file.. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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OK, what I was doing earlier today....
"Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal." .... no longer works. Point the problem doc to my good normal no longer fixes the problem. This is full on Word Flackiness zone! Aaron On Sep 19, 4:00*pm, wrote: I've already had the user delete her Normal and have Word recreate it. *We get the same outcome. *I also noticed the (Asian) Chinese (PRC) font reference in the problem doc after I email them and was trying to figure out how to remove it. *But after I closed down Word and open the docs again, now I can see the Asian font reference in both good and bad docs. *Very strange. *I feel like I'm entering the Word Flackyness zone. *(A place I've spent ALOT of time in over the past few years.) If you look at File/Properties/Summary in the problem doc you can see the original user's name see she's got Asian characters in the 'Company' field. *The good doc does not have that. *Maybe the user has some additional Asian language add-ons loaded into Word? *I'm going to check on that. Aaron On Sep 19, 3:34*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. *I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. *Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. *It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003.. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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OK, more info. Pointing the problem doc to my clean Normal worked
this morning, but not this afternoon. But, pointing to an old Normal I had saved from a few weeks ago did revert the text back to the good formatting. Is this "setting" able to spread into other Normals/ templates? Aaron On Sep 19, 4:00*pm, wrote: I've already had the user delete her Normal and have Word recreate it. *We get the same outcome. *I also noticed the (Asian) Chinese (PRC) font reference in the problem doc after I email them and was trying to figure out how to remove it. *But after I closed down Word and open the docs again, now I can see the Asian font reference in both good and bad docs. *Very strange. *I feel like I'm entering the Word Flackyness zone. *(A place I've spent ALOT of time in over the past few years.) If you look at File/Properties/Summary in the problem doc you can see the original user's name see she's got Asian characters in the 'Company' field. *The good doc does not have that. *Maybe the user has some additional Asian language add-ons loaded into Word? *I'm going to check on that. Aaron On Sep 19, 3:34*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. *I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. *Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. *It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003.. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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The Asian languages are definitely the problem, and I'm afraid I don't know
how to eradicate them, but if you google perhaps you can find more info. You might also try posting in the microsoft.public.word.international.features newsgroup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... OK, what I was doing earlier today.... "Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal." .... no longer works. Point the problem doc to my good normal no longer fixes the problem. This is full on Word Flackiness zone! Aaron On Sep 19, 4:00 pm, wrote: I've already had the user delete her Normal and have Word recreate it. We get the same outcome. I also noticed the (Asian) Chinese (PRC) font reference in the problem doc after I email them and was trying to figure out how to remove it. But after I closed down Word and open the docs again, now I can see the Asian font reference in both good and bad docs. Very strange. I feel like I'm entering the Word Flackyness zone. (A place I've spent ALOT of time in over the past few years.) If you look at File/Properties/Summary in the problem doc you can see the original user's name see she's got Asian characters in the 'Company' field. The good doc does not have that. Maybe the user has some additional Asian language add-ons loaded into Word? I'm going to check on that. Aaron On Sep 19, 3:34 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 page doc? Am I missing a setting somewhere? Aaron- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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I had the users check on any installed or turn-on language support.
They reported back that the user in question had 20+ languages enabled in her Office Language support. (Start/Programs/Microsoft Office/ Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings) They turned off all additional languages and the pagination problem disappeared! We are still going to research the cause and try to detect/fix this programmatically in our application. Thanks to all for the help. Aaron On Sep 19, 4:34*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The Asian languages are definitely the problem, and I'm afraid I don't know how to eradicate them, but if you google perhaps you can find more info. You might also try posting in the microsoft.public.word.international.features newsgroup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... OK, what I was doing earlier today.... "Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. *It’s something in that Normal." ... no longer works. *Point the problem doc to my good normal no longer fixes the problem. *This is full on Word Flackiness zone! Aaron On Sep 19, 4:00 pm, wrote: I've already had the user delete her Normal and have Word recreate it. We get the same outcome. I also noticed the (Asian) Chinese (PRC) font reference in the problem doc after I email them and was trying to figure out how to remove it. But after I closed down Word and open the docs again, now I can see the Asian font reference in both good and bad docs. Very strange. I feel like I'm entering the Word Flackyness zone. (A place I've spent ALOT of time in over the past few years.) If you look at File/Properties/Summary in the problem doc you can see the original user's name see she's got Asian characters in the 'Company' field. The good doc does not have that. Maybe the user has some additional Asian language add-ons loaded into Word? I'm going to check on that. Aaron On Sep 19, 3:34 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message .... Thanks Susanne. I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 ... read more »- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Thanks for the feedback. As a result of attempting to troubleshoot this
issue, I ended up with my Normal style contaminated with Chinese (PRC) and had to launder it. Those languages can be very pervasive! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I had the users check on any installed or turn-on language support. They reported back that the user in question had 20+ languages enabled in her Office Language support. (Start/Programs/Microsoft Office/ Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings) They turned off all additional languages and the pagination problem disappeared! We are still going to research the cause and try to detect/fix this programmatically in our application. Thanks to all for the help. Aaron On Sep 19, 4:34 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The Asian languages are definitely the problem, and I'm afraid I don't know how to eradicate them, but if you google perhaps you can find more info. You might also try posting in the microsoft.public.word.international.features newsgroup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... OK, what I was doing earlier today.... "Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal." ... no longer works. Point the problem doc to my good normal no longer fixes the problem. This is full on Word Flackiness zone! Aaron On Sep 19, 4:00 pm, wrote: I've already had the user delete her Normal and have Word recreate it. We get the same outcome. I also noticed the (Asian) Chinese (PRC) font reference in the problem doc after I email them and was trying to figure out how to remove it. But after I closed down Word and open the docs again, now I can see the Asian font reference in both good and bad docs. Very strange. I feel like I'm entering the Word Flackyness zone. (A place I've spent ALOT of time in over the past few years.) If you look at File/Properties/Summary in the problem doc you can see the original user's name see she's got Asian characters in the 'Company' field. The good doc does not have that. Maybe the user has some additional Asian language add-ons loaded into Word? I'm going to check on that. Aaron On Sep 19, 3:34 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I took a look at your docs and couldn't pin anything down, either. I was about to send them along to someone at MS to take a look at, when I read this post, which caused me to look at the definition of Normal style in the problem doc. Note that it includes references to "Asian" and "Chinese (PRC)"; I'd be willing to bet that's the issue. What's more difficult is figuring out how to eradicate that formatting. I suspect you can't do it without installing the Asian languages so that you get an extra tab on the Font dialog. Even so, it may be necessary to rename the user's Normal.dot and let Word generate a fresh copy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. I’ll send them along via email. I’ve played around with the user’s Normal.dot some more and found there is something in it that is causing the difference. Attaching our problem doc to my own Normal (and clicking the “Automatically update document style” checkbox, which I forgot to do the first time around) changes the text back to the way it’s supported to be. Pointing back to the user’s Normal and it goes back to sticking that word out to the right. It’s something in that Normal. Aaron On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'd be interested in having a look at the document that has the sticking-out word. Email it to me if you can. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne. Neither of them have that setting checked. Aaron On Sep 19, 10:53 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Check the Compatibility Options to see if either document has "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thanks finalword and Suzanne. Finalword... I tried to change styles of the paragraph to something else and back. No change, still have the extra word pushing out past the text boundaries. I’ve played with the compatibility with no luck. My 3 page doc is set as “Microsoft Word 2002” my 2 page doc is set as “Microsoft Office Word 2003”. Changing the 2003 back to 2002, saving and reopening does not change the situation. Trying to copy only text and not the trailing paragraph marker is no good either. My 2 page doc seems to have some mutation that lets some lines push past the right text boundary. I can clear all text out of the doc, grab clean text from another doc, paste it in and I still see some text pushing out to the right. Suzanne... There are no ruler difference between the two docs. I checked the font properties. Neither of the docs or the lines/words in question have fonts that are set to compressed. One thing I noticed as I have both docs open is if I Alt-Cntl back and forth between windows I can see slightly different spacing between some characters elsewhere in the same line of text. It’s very slight, but it’s noticeable. Other areas in the document line up perfectly between the two docs. Aaron On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the case of the sticking-out word, there are two possibilities to check. Look at the ruler. Has the paragraph been given a negative right indent to keep the word on this line? If not, select the paragraph and go to Format | Font. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, see if the font has been Condensed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have not done a complete comparison of all styles. I have checked the Normal style bewteen the two docs and all the settings look the same. I thought about it being a difference in the user's Normal.dot file. I had the user send me her Normal.dot but i was not able to reproduce the specific pagination she is seeing on her machine. One thing of interest: When I turn on Tools/Options/View/Text Boundaries in the user's 2 page doc I can see the last word in the problem paragraph sticks out just past the right side dotted boundary line. On my 3 page doc the last word wraps to the next line. Aaron On Sep 17, 3:05 pm, finalword wrote: Did you check the page setup and header/footer spacing in these docs. Do both documents contains exactly the same styles? " wrote: I have a question about Word document pagination in Word 2003. I have two documents that are paginating differently. One word at the end of one of the paragraphs kicks onto 4th line in one document but stays on the 3rd line of the other. Both of these documents were created from an documentation generation system written in VBA and both are based on the Normal template on different user’s machines. The result of this single extra line is that one document kicks onto 3 pages, while the other is only 2 pages. If I bring the 2 page and 3 page Word documents onto my machine they seem to maintain this formatting. Meaning, the 2 page doc lets me fit the extra work on the 3rd line of the paragraph all the time. If I copy/paste the text from the 3 page doc into the 2 page doc it is able to squeeze that word into the 3rd line of the paragraph, thus making it a 2 page doc. I’ve read about printer driver settings effecting onscreen pagination, but I would think that bringing both docs to my machine would cause them to be formatted the same (based on my print driver). But I’m not seeing that. I’ve also played around with Tools/Options/Compatibility switching between 2002 and 2003 but have not found a setting that effects the pagination as I’m seeing in the two docs. Any ideas? Why is does my 2 page doc (with the extra word squeezed onto the 3rd line of one of the paragraphs) act differently than my 3 ... read more »- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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