Re: Word 2003 Bug

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I cannot reproduce the 'bug'. As Jay has pointed out, this is a printer
driver corruption rather than a Word problem. I have 7 printers (a Canon
colour copier, a NPD colour copier, an Epson FX dot matrix, an Epson C64, an
Epson Stylus 1290, an Epson C4000 and a LaserJet 4050), a fax printer (GFi
FaxMaker), a PDF printer (PDF999) and Microsoft Document Imaging: I can
toggle between any/all of them as much as I like and it doesn't corrupt my
document.

Terry Farrell


"tcsgreg" <tcsgreg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:I have now replicated the problem on another computer running Office 2003
w/o
: SP1. The printers on that computer that I switched between were a PDF
writer
: and Microsoft Office Document Image Writer.
:
: This bug apparently does not care about which printer only that you are
: switching.
:
: To clarify a couple of points:
:
: 1. It does not always happen the first time. I created a document then
: switched printers and printed it. It was fine. Closed that document opened
: another new document, repeated the process and then it happened.
:
: 2. The only way the bug appears is if you goto File > Print, switch
printers
: and then print the document. Just switching the printers does not cause
the
: screen to get messed up.
:
: 3. After the screen gets messed up, you can switch to read view and it
looks
: fine, closing read view will show the messed up document again.
:
: I hope all of this helps.
:
: Greg Keehfuss
: Technical Computer Services
:
: "tcsgreg" wrote:
:
: > I found a bug I can replicate consistently.
: >
: > Open a new document.
: > Insert date (ALT+SHIFT+D).
: > Go to File>Print.
: > Change Printer.
: > Click OK.
: >
: > All of the Text scruches into blobs on the left of the page.
: >
: > By setting the printer back to the original fixes the display.
: >
: > Temporary Solution:
: > Goto File>Print.
: > Change Printer.
: > Click Close.
: > Goto File>Print and click OK.
: >


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