Re: corrupt file fails to print completely

Hi Robert -

If only 7-8 pages of a 20 page document are printing I tend to doubt that
endnotes are at fault. Is there anything in the neighborhood of where the
error occurs such as a section break, table, graphic, manual page break, or
other content or structural element?

See the info here on un-corrupting a document. I'd suggest you try Step #1
first. If that doesn't do it try #4:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


On 3/14/09 4:30 PM, in article
missinglink-17AA04.16304014032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "RobertB"
<missinglink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Reference system: Intel core2duo, 10.4.11. Word 2004 (latest updates
applied).

I've got a doc that I'm having trouble with. I am guessing that my
problems arose because of my decision to use automatically generated
endnotes. I've used footnotes before without a problem, but I don't use
endnotes as a rule.

Document is about 20 pages. Palatino font throughout. No fancy font
changes or formatting changes.

Symptom: The document will print (to an HP 4MP Laserjet) about 7 or 8
pages and stop. Often, the printer light will flash but nothing will
print. A couple of times I've checked the OS X Printer utility and there
is a message that reads something to the effect of "Unexpected EOF
received." Am assuming that means "End Of File."

- Saving as an RTF and printing yielded the same results.
- Saving as a PDF and printing from Preview yielded the same results
(Preview appears to actually print an RTF file).
- Saving as a PDF and printing from Acrobat Reader printed the entire
document.
- Saving as an RTF and opening the document on Word X on my older G4
iMac (also 10.4.11) printed the entire document correctly.

I tried the copy/paste into a new document but that didn't work. There's
no last paragraph mark beyond the endnotes available to delete.

Is there any way to fix this? There is a workaround but I have to turn
the document in to a client and I'd like not to give them any grief.

Thanks.

robert

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