Lines won't print

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I typed a page of lines and hyphens so a teacher could use it for 1st grade
printing. I cannot get it to print. Also, when I open up my 3 1/2 after
saving it, the lines are not in the same position as where I typed them.
 
What version of Word are your using? You might try using a table and then
configuring the BORDERS the way you want them to appear.
 
Are you saying that you saved the document to a floppy! This is one of the
surest ways to corrupt a document (the only worse way is to open the
document from the floppy and work on it). Always save the document to your
hard drive, then copy to the floppy; in reverse, copy from the floppy to the
HD and open from there.

For the change in appearance, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I am using Word 2003. I made the 1st grade printing paper by using the
underline key across the page and then hyphens on the next line and so forth.
The page won't print; nor are the lines the way I typed them when I open up
the document from my 3 1/2
 
Thank you for that info. I appreciate your help. Is this the reason that my
page is not printing and that the lines are not where I typed them?
 
Possibly. May I suggest a better way to create your lines? Figure out the
distance you need between the solid lines and the broken lines and set your
line height to that amount (Format | Paragraph | Line Spacing: Exactly).
Then apply borders to your lines (press Enter at the end of each line so
that each one is a separate paragraph). In the Format | Borders and Shading
dialog, you can select either a solid border or a broken line border and
apply it to the bottom of the paragraph. The easiest way to create a page of
these would be to create two separate styles, one with the solid bottom
border and one with the broken border, and set each one to be the "Style for
following paragraph" of the other so that they would alternate down the page
(but I think you probably need two solid lines for each broken one?).
Alternatively, you could set up a table with Exact row height and apply the
borders to the bottoms of the rows as needed.

Some experimentation with borders will show you what you need to do (for
more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm), but the main
thing you gain is flexibility. A border is always the width of the paragraph
even if that paragraph varies a bit from printer to printer. When you enter
actual font characters, you can be messed up by subtle shifts in where lines
break.

Another way to approach this would be to set a tab stop at the right margin
and give it an underline or hyphen leader (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm). Press Tab once to
insert a long underline or a row of hyphens. Again, this will fill the width
available, with no overflow if the line width shifts slightly.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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