Table shading showing but not printing correctly

I'm having a problem with table shading. When I shade a row, it looks fine on the screen and in print preview, but not all of the shading shows up when I print the document or create a PDF (still sort of printing, I know). I've tried everything I can think of, including changing the paragraph setting (keep w/ next, etc.) and making sure that the shading is set to cell or table or text, it makes no difference. The other strange thing is that if I print to my personal printer -- not the networked office printer -- the shading shows up okay.

Help me!

Shading is something that some print drivers (and Acrobat) have problems
with: it seems to relate to the order in which the print elements --
especially via PostScript -- are handled. The fact that you can print it OK
on one printer suggests that this is indeed the problem. It's possible that
there is no solution, but you can try:

1. With Acrobat, use Distiller instead of PDFMaker (or vice versa --
whichever you didn't use last time).

2. Instead of shading the row, shade the paragraphs within the row. (The
'Apply to' box on the Borders and Shading dialog.) Can get ugly if you have
cell padding, but sometimes works.

3. Instead of shading the row, anchor a shaded rectangle to the first cell,
positioned behind the text. Don't do this until you've finished all editing.




"granifty" wrote in message
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I'm having a problem with table shading. When I shade a row, it looks
fine on the screen and in print preview, but not all of the shading shows up
when I print the document or create a PDF (still sort of printing, I know).
I've tried everything I can think of, including changing the paragraph
setting (keep w/ next, etc.) and making sure that the shading is set to cell
or table or text, it makes no difference. The other strange thing is that
if I print to my personal printer -- not the networked office printer -- the
shading shows up okay.

Help me!