Re: corrupt file fails to print completely

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In article <C5E309FF.4B726%onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
CyberTaz <onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Before you tear your hair out - Have you checked the HP site to see if there
is an update for your printer driver? If the doc is printing OK from an
older version of Word it suggests that could be the problem, especially if
the Save As Web Page had no effect.

I'm not sure. There was a driver from 2005 I think, but that is older
than my iMac and certainly older than the latest updates to the OS.
There is an HP "Printing System" for OS X (27 MB) but I'm hesitant to
install it because I'm not 100% sure what it is. Also, if it overwrites
my current driver and causes problems, I'm not sure how to revert. Is
there any way to check the printer driver date and compare with what's
on their site? I assume printer drivers are in /Library/ somewhere.

Did you try doing the Maggie as described in my prior reply?

You know I didn't. However, I saved it as a TXT file, and added the note
numbers back manually. That didn't work either though. I think it
printed only 4 or 5 pages and quit (sure am using a lot of paper testing
this). This document seems to hate me.




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



On 3/15/09 3:58 PM, in article
missinglink-F7E37C.15580815032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "RobertB"
<missinglink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, OK. Conversion to HTML and then to DOC didn't work. File printed
only 6 pages before stopping. I could print page 7 by itself using Print
Current Page. Last week, the original document printed up to page 11.


In article <missinglink-8BB83F.15230415032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
RobertB <missinglink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <C5E1AF6F.4B6C5%onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
CyberTaz <onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As an afterthought...

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.

Well, yes there is, you just can't highlight it or the endnotes at the
same
time as the document text :-) However, if you simply use Command+A,
Shift+Left Arrow, then copy the endnotes will be included when you paste
even though they didn't appear to be selected. Headers & Footers are
handled
in the same fashion.

In this case, however, I don't think a "Maggie" will do the job since the
corruption seems to be somewhere in the body of he doc.

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



On 3/14/09 5:30 PM, in article
C5E19A3A.4B621%onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
"CyberTaz" <onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:

OK. I don't suppose there's any way to easily check for corruption by
using a text editor.



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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