Document prints as blank

[Barry Watzman]

I have a Word document (word 2003), a single page, some text (small but
not tiny) inside a text box with a thin black border. [It's a card that
I cut out on the border lines with medical information that I carry in
my wallet].

I can't print it ... it looks fine on the screen, but it prints as a
totally blank page (at least it doesn't waste any ink or paper trying to
print it]. Print preview is also totally blank.

I have tried all of the formatting options for the text box, none of
them makes anything print. The text is not hidden.

Anyone have any ideas what is going on? It looks perfectly, absolutely
normal on the screen.

 

[Lene Fredborg]

Select Tools > Options > Print tab and turn on "Drawing objects". Click OK.

For more details, see:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/InvisibleGraphics.htm

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Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

 

[Barry Watzman]

Thank you; that fixed it.

It does, however, raise the question as to why doing such things
(checking this box) is necessary, why it's not the default (since I
didn't uncheck it) and why it is so obscure.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Diificult questions are the ones to which you don't know the answers.
Obscurity is thus a relative term.

It is the default, but Word 2003 has a bad habit of randomly losing some
customisations stored in the settings sub key of the Word Data key in the
registry. Deleting that key can effect a (often temporary) fix, but if you
find it changes again, you can create a permament fix using autoopen and
autonew macros in the normal template to force the setting for each
document. See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
The particular macro entry for issue this would be

Options.PrintDrawingObjects = True

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