Re: Locking linked Word documents

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From: Michael (news_at_oasisknowledge.com)
Date: 03/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:46:48 +0000

Hi Bob,

The slides aren't given to the printing company - only the document.
So far as I know you don't need to have the slides as well as the
word doc. The Word doc will prompt to ask if you want to update the
links when you open the doc - but you simply decline. The fact is I
can prnt this doc OK from any location regardless of whether or not it
has access to the slides. Also, the commercial printers could print
90% of the pages OK (including the illustrations from the olinked
slides) with just the Word doc, so I don't think this is an issue.

What I'm trying to find out is this - from the point of view of the
print process - what is the difference between an embedded slide that
is in the authomatic update mode and a slide that has been locked.
Why would the print process be inconsistent in its handling of these
objects on a commercial printer whereas it isn't on my office
printers?

Regards,
Michael.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:53:23 -0600, Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Will the "linked documents" have the same path when provided to the
>printer? It sounds like they don't and that's where the problem is.
>
>Michael wrote:
>
>> Hi William,
>>
>> The linked document prints out fine on my Epson and HP printers (and
>> into pdf), but the commercial printers we gave it to (a local
>> franchise here in the UK called Kall Kwik) printed it out wiith about
>> 10% of the slides failing to print out. (I don't actually know what
>> printers they run there) They then blamed me for the problem because
>> I had given them a Word document that wasn't 'locked'.
>>
>> I just really wanted to know if this was a well known thing that Word
>> documents with 'unlocked' slides often don't print properly. I
>> couldn't find any reference to it in Technet and my feeling is that If
>> I an print it - why can't they? It's not clear to me how the printing
>> process should differentiate between the locked slides or automatic
>> update links - I believe they should both print properly. Also, if
>> there printer can print 90% of the linked slides OK why can't it print
>> 100? It's just not logical. Have you come across this type of problem
>> before?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael.
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:57:15 GMT, v-rxwang@online.microsoft.com
>> (William Wang[MSFT]) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Michael,
>>>
>>>Thanks for your posting. Since this issue only occurs on some printers I'd
>>>like to focus on the problematic printers. You may want to update the
>>>printer driver and then test the problem.
>>>
>>>Also, do you use the same version of Office as the one you used to create
>>>the document? If you create a new document and print it, does this issue
>>>occurs on the new one?
>>>
>>>William Wang
>>>Microsoft Online Support Engineer
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