Text displayed in Normal view but not in Print Layout view or Print Preview
is usually text that is running off the bottom of the page. There are
several possible reasons for this:
1. Text is in a text box. Text boxes (like other drawing objects) cannot
exceed one page. If you absolutely, positively need to use text boxes,
you'll need to add another on page 2 and link it to the one on page 1 so the
text will autoflow.
2. Text is in a wrapped table. Wrapped tables can't exceed one page. Go to
the Table tab of Table | Properties and set text wrapping to None. Note that
it's very easy to dislodge a table (and thus make it wrapped) by nudging the
table handle in Print Layout view; that's one reason it's safer and easier
to work on tables in Normal view.
3. Text is in a table row with Exact row height; it may not be truncated in
Normal view but will be in others. (Actually, I see it truncated in Normal
view as well, but ISTR that this may not have been true in earlier
versions.)
4. The document has been formatted with multiple columns, with column width
set to margin width. This is a bug we've seen a lot of lately. Obviously, if
column 1 is the width of the page, there's no room for column 2, so it goes
into Never-Never-Land. The fix is to go to Format | Columns and click the
box for One.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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