Letter Bunching Up

[Guest]

Sometimes when I go to print, all of the letters of each sentence bunch up on
the left side of the document and over lap each other. However if I then
close the document and reopen it and then print, it is fine. I am using Word
2003 with SP2 installed. I have tried doing a detect and repair and doing a
total reinstall. But this has not resolved the issue.

 

[Guest]

Mitch,

We've had the same problem, but not consistantly. We've recently upgraded
from Office 97 to Office 2003 which started the problem. We produce quite a
few data merged letters and forms and cannot predict which text or field will
compress to the left margin.

Have you had any luck in resolving this issue?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Lee,

It seems to relate to temp files that Word uses, often created by the use of an Add-in for Word. (Remove Hidden data is one). Some
of the workarounds for it include
- switching the printer in File=>Print then switching back.
- Using Start=>Search to recycle, before
starting Word, all files found with the search string
~$*.*;*.tmp

I don't recall that it was posted before in relation to mailmerge or automation, but the same factors would likely come into play.

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Mitch,

We've had the same problem, but not consistantly. We've recently upgraded
from Office 97 to Office 2003 which started the problem. We produce quite a
few data merged letters and forms and cannot predict which text or field will
compress to the left margin.

Have you had any luck in resolving this issue? >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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