space between words

[Jo-Anne]

I'm a new user of Word (2007) with a WinXP SP3 system. I've used WordPerfect
for many years. Recently, I brought into Word a letter, with my letterhead,
that I had created in WP. I deleted the body of the letter and typed a new
letter. It looked fine on screen; but when I printed it, there were all
sorts of weird spacings. For example:

extra spaces between some words (the text is left justified only)
a hypen that ran into the previous letter rather than appearing between two
letters
an em dash with a space before it

I saved the letter as a .doc file and brought it into WordPerfect. It
printed fine there.

What's likely to be the problem?

Thanks much!

Jo-Anne

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would suspect something with the Printer driver. See if there is an
updated version available on the Printer manufacturer's website.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Jo-Anne]

Thank you for the suggestion, Doug; but I think it's something else. If I
bring into Word a full WordPerfect document rather than cutting and pasting
from a WP document, the printing is fine. I just tried playing with
cut-and-paste between WordPerfect and Word, and it looks like if I do a
"paste special" and pick unformatted text, it prints OK in Word. Nothing
else works for printing pasted material.

Jo-Anne

 

[Terry Farrell]

What does it look like on screen in Print Preview?

Terry

 

[Jo-Anne]

Looks normal in Print Preview.

Jo-Anne

What does it look like on screen in Print Preview?

Terry

 

[Terry Farrell]

Then it comes back to a printer driver issue. Make sure that you have the
latest driver from the manufacturer's support site, then delete and
reinstall the printer.

Terry

 

[Jo-Anne]

Thank you, Terry! But why, then, does the printer work fine in all other
programs--from WordPerfect to email to webpages?

Jo-Anne

 

[Terry Farrell]

Because Word uses the printer differently (and much harder) than other apps.
In fact, Word won't work at all without a compatible Printer driver set as
the Windows Default. Word interrogates the printer driver constantly to work
out how the printer should print the page: every printer is different.

Terry

 

[Jo-Anne]

Thank you again, Terry!

Jo-Anne

Because Word uses the printer differently (and much harder) than other
apps. In fact, Word won't work at all without a compatible Printer driver
set as the Windows Default. Word interrogates the printer driver
constantly to work out how the printer should print the page: every
printer is different.

Terry