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Hallo everyone,
I am having severe problems with Word 2016, as it does not print the document layout correctly as it somehow messes up the margin when printing.
NOTE: This happens when printing to Adobe Acrobat DC and my physical printer!
My document layout:
• no markup,
• custom margins (set to 1,27cm top / bottom and left / right - my printer can easily handle these...)
• no header or footer
• paper size set to A4 in all settings
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The following is picture shows page 1 of my document in "Print Layout"-view. This is how I want the document to look when printed.
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Here is a picture of the Print-preview menu. You can see that the Print preview still shows the document exactly as I want it. No problems. No funny settings selected. No "Print Markup" selected.
IMAGE 3
Now this is what happens when I print the actual document:
The bottom margin changes and suddenly the whole layout is messed up!
Please advise whether this a bug, or some setting I seem to wrongfully configure.
This is really annoying as I sometimes spend hours to get the layout and spacing in a document right, but then when it comes to printing the document, everything is messed up.
Thank you.
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Ours do the same, youre not alone. Its a big problem for corporate users in marketing.
Just checking, am I the only one suffering from document footer issues as well?
All of our documents have corporate footers that are made up from text and images, they work perfectly in all versions of Word except 2016 where for some reason the images move position and also the main irritation is that even though the print preview displays perfectly (once the images have been re-positioned) the printed document is completely different with the images and text all different sizes and out of position? any one else have this problem?
I have tried all possible solutions available (listed in the forums and this thread) our office have just moved over to 356 2016 and its caused a massive head ache! thanks Microsoft...
I don't have an ETA yet from engineering but stayed tuned for updates
Glad to hear it is being worked on!
I second Brown Bob’s question.
Excuse me, how soon is it expected?