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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.
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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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I installed a new computer in August and the problem immediately occurred on a clean install of Windows 10 and Office 365, so it didn't work for me alas ...
Did any one found a solution. Cant believe >Printing Doesn't Match Preview is still not solved yet.
The problem persists. Microsoft have indicated to me recently that it's a one-off problem on my system that they have not seen before! But then I found this forum.
It's not a Windows problem but a Word problem. It occurs on my PC and on my iPad Pro (I have Office 365, which means Word 2016 on the PC). It only occurs for me with fonts I purchased from Monotype.
It's a new bug: it did not occur in previous versions up to 2007, my last version of Office.
It is not the printers: I have files that displayed fine in 2007 but now they don't. But they still print as they used to. Somewhere MS has introduced a bug that renders the screen for Page Layout and Preview incorrectly. It gets the page length wrong. They appear to have a different software module for screen display and actual printing, and it's the former that's changed.
I have gone back to my earlier version of Office as the only viable solution. But why can't Microsoft admit the problem? Why is it still a problem after more than a year?
In my experience, this will eventually be put right but surreptitiously, as if nothing had ever happened. This is not the first time I have had such problems with MS. To say I am cynical would be an understatement.
I had the same issue using a purchased .OTF font on Windows 10/Office 365.
My colleagues on windows 8.1 do not have the same problem.
Instead of forcing the files to save in windows 8.1 retro-compatible format as suggested in one of the replies, you can set the line spacing to a fixed value for your paragraphs.
For instance, if the character font is 12pt, set the line spacing to "Exactly 14.4pt" to set it as the equivalent of 1.2 lines.
Then the display screen on MsWord is the same as when you print the document or save it as PDF. It is really WYSIWYG this way.
So it seems the problem is the handling of line spacing with OTF fonts.
I hope it helps.
Unfortunately I doubt your suggestion would work when dealing with .dot templates using semi complex layouts, headers, and footers while also need to maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of word.
The only 100% work around I've found is using the compatibility options... I created a VBA sub that sets the correct options and linked it to a shortcut icon in the quick access tab in word. all I have to do is click the button after loading the old word .dot template and then save the new file instance as a .doc.