Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2006

Hi Gary:

OK, let's start unpicking this:

To get your sound back, go to Word>Preferences>General and turn on "Provide
feedback with sound".

Go through your document looking at the arrows.  These are tab characters.
They are trying to line the text up in columns.  If you have not set up tabs
for your document, or the web page was a different width to your document,
the tabs will be in the wrong place, producing strange gaps in the text.

Try using Format>Document to set the Layout to "Landscape", giving you a
document that is wider than it is tall, like most web pages.

The "periods" may be periods, or they may be "spaces".  In Show All, spaces
are displayed as very small periods.  Try deleting them if you do not need
them.

The fact that the text that is coming out of the printer is not the text
that appears on the screen is a much larger problem.  This may be caused by
character formatting in invisible colours or hidden characters.

To prove this, File>Save as... And save the document in Format =  "Text Only
with line breaks".  Quit Word.  Restart Word (we need to ensure that we know
which version of the document is in the memory) and open the Text Only
version.  Print that, from both TextEdit and from Word.

What happens then?  If what you see is what you print then, go back to the
Word Document version of your file, select all of the text and use
Edit>Clear>Clear formatting.  That will remove all of the formatting from
the document, including the formatting that is preventing the text from
printing.  You can then reformat the document.

If that doesn't fix it, please get back to us with what is happening now:
this is a complex problem, we may need a few more steps to fix it.

cheers

On 12/2/06 4:34 PM, in article C01408DB.75E%gary@garystein.com, "Gary Stein"
<gary@garystein.com> wrote: