Mac OS 8.1, Office97, Word 6.1, Printing Problem, Laser writer 320

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RebPd1@excite.com - 16 Oct 2005 12:08 GMT

I use a Powerbook G4, supporting OS X, but am trying to resolve a
problem with a legacy mac.

Under Mac OS 8.1 (Powermac 7300), and using Office 97 and Word 6.1,
when adding either i) PageNo, ii) Date, iii) Time to the header or
footer of a Word document, whilst this information is display within
the document, display problems arise in both Page Preview and
Printing.

The fields {PAGE} {DATE} {TIME} are substituted for the actual time.

Two issues arise:
i. What factors give rise to the problem
ii. How can the problem be alleviated.

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Daiya Mitchell - 16 Oct 2005 15:34 GMT

It's set to print field codes instead of field results.

In Edit | Preferences | Print, uncheck the box for "field codes" .
(assuming it wasn't different in Word 6.1--but that box should be there
somewhere, and I can't imagine anywhere else for it)

> I use a Powerbook G4, supporting OS X, but am trying to resolve a
> problem with a legacy mac.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> i. What factors give rise to the problem
> ii. How can the problem be alleviated.

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JE McGimpsey - 16 Oct 2005 15:46 GMT

> Under Mac OS 8.1 (Powermac 7300), and using Office 97 and Word 6.1,
> when adding either i) PageNo, ii) Date, iii) Time to the header or
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> i. What factors give rise to the problem
> ii. How can the problem be alleviated.

Not sure exactly what version you're running (Office 97 is a Windows
version), but you can try unchecking the Preferences/Print/Include with
document/Field codes checkbox.

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RebPd1@excite.com - 16 Oct 2005 16:34 GMT

Thanks.

Using Word 6.01, selecting from the Menu, Tools/Options/Print and
unchecking 'Field Codes' resolves the issue.

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