Word 2003 - different pagination on different documents

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

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

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 -

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Interesting about the text boundaries and the word sticking out into the
margin. You could try applying a different style to that last paragraph and
then flipping it back to see if that helps. The paragraph formatting may be
off.

Also, make sure the Compatibility is set appropriately for both documents
and that Tools | Options | Save Tab | Disable features Introduced After is
NOT check.
Save both documents in the appropriate format locally.

You can also try copying the entire document EXCEPT the last paragraph mark
to a blank document and see what happens as far as the pagination.

I have also found lately that the default printer can sometimes impact the
page setup. Make sure to choose the same printer and see if this helps

" wrote:

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 -

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 -

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 -

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OK, here is something else interesting.

In my ‘problem doc’ (the one that allows some extra characters to push
into the right boundary) when I start adding spaces in the middle of a
line and as the right-most word gets closer to the right side text
boundary, when the I hit the last space and the right-most work pushes
past the boundary the spacing between all the characters on that line
jump around very slightly. If I remove the last space I typed then
the characters in the line jump back.

In my non-problem doc (with the exact same text) when I hit that last
space the right-most word wraps to the next line.

Example: I add 5 extra spaces in the middle of one of the sentences.
When I hit the 5th space in the problem doc it adjusts the character
spacing and pushes past the boundary. When I hit the 5th space on the
non-problem doc it wraps the last word.

Any ideas?

Aaron

On Sep 19, 10:09*am, wrote:
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 -

OK, here is something else interesting.

In my ‘problem doc’ (the one that allows some extra characters to push
into the right boundary) when I start adding spaces in the middle of a
line and as the right-most word gets closer to the right side text
boundary, when the I hit the last space and the right-most work pushes
past the boundary the spacing between all the characters on that line
jump around very slightly. If I remove the last space I typed then
the characters in the line jump back.

In my non-problem doc (with the exact same text) when I hit that last
space the right-most word wraps to the next line.

Example: I add 5 extra spaces in the middle of one of the sentences.
When I hit the 5th space in the problem doc it adjusts the character
spacing and pushes past the boundary. When I hit the 5th space on the
non-problem doc it wraps the last word.

Any ideas?

Aaron


On Sep 19, 10:09*am, wrote:
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 -

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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 -

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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.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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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?

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