Paging issue

[Paddy]

(Office 2007 Ultimate - but issue applies to all versions of Word)

I produce a Word doc. Paging is fine on this PC.

If that doc is opened on different PC, the paging is all wrong - pages break
in different places - usually earlier than original (apart from hard page
breaks of course)

Paper size is the same (A4 Portrait); margins show to be the same (2cm each
top,
bottom, left, right).

Is it because of a different default printer on the different PCs? Can
anything be done to fix it? It's a real PITA.

Thanks

Paddy

 

[Jay Freedman]

(Office 2007 Ultimate - but issue applies to all versions of Word)

I produce a Word doc. Paging is fine on this PC.

If that doc is opened on different PC, the paging is all wrong - pages break
in different places - usually earlier than original (apart from hard page
breaks of course)

Paper size is the same (A4 Portrait); margins show to be the same (2cm each
top,
bottom, left, right).

Is it because of a different default printer on the different PCs? Can
anything be done to fix it? It's a real PITA.

Thanks

Paddy

You got it in one. More specifically, it's the different printer drivers, which
Word consults to get letter widths and such. That in turn can affect line
breaks, which go on to change page breaks.

About the only thing you can do is to install the same driver on both PCs and
select that driver as the printer in Word when editing the document. The printer
doesn't have to be physically attached to the computer to do that.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for discussion.

 

[Paddy]

You got it in one. More specifically, it's the different printer
drivers, which Word consults to get letter widths and such. That in
turn can affect line breaks, which go on to change page breaks.

About the only thing you can do is to install the same driver on both
PCs and select that driver as the printer in Word when editing the
document. The printer doesn't have to be physically attached to the
computer to do that.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for
discussion.

Thanks, Jay. Makes sense. Still a PITA, though!

Paddy