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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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Still nothing.
I routinely use Word on large documents (regularly more than 250 pages) and this kind of problems are a nightmare!
At last, Microsoft, DO SOMETHING!
Do I have by force, use fonts that I do not like?
Solve the problem and solve it now.
Ioannis
Still nothing.
I routinely use Word on large documents (regularly more than 250 pages) and this kind of problems are a nightmare!
At last, Microsoft, DO SOMETHING!
Do I have by force, use fonts that I do not like?
Solve the problem and solve it now.
Ioannis
I use Hypatia Sans Pro and want to send a shout out to whoever suggested going to the paragraph settings and choosing the spacing as "exactly" and the font size I'm using. Fortunately the docs I create don't use different font sizes, nor are the lengthy. I can't imagine the trouble this is causing other users, especially since we all pay an ongoing user fee.
MICROSOFT... ARE YOU LISTENING?!
Thanks for your feedback. The product team has been actively working on this, and we hope to release a fix to production soon.
Excuse me, how soon is it expected?
Glad to hear it is being worked on!
I second Brown Bob’s question.