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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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Weird. I am running Word 2016 MSO (16.0.8326.2096) 64-bit (older than your version) but the updater says I have the latest version.
The great workaround of Suzanne "user printer metrics" has one big disadvantage: Word versions before 2013 use a different general table layout option, which obviously cannot be set to "get table layout option of Word 2013 and later " in combination with "user printer metrics".
So I prefer as a workaround to use exact point sizes for line spacing in paragraph styles (including the at 'least' option)
For professionals it's not acceptable to get the only feedback by Microsoft "we working on this issue" from June 2017 (!), almost 2 years after this severe Word bug has been reported!
By the way in my Word 2016 version 16.0.8431.2046 (Office 365 1708 Build 8431.2046 Click and...) I seem to get real WYSIWYG for screen and PDF generation again using OTF fonts (I use Myriad Pro) - finally!
I hope we get a solution soon!
This fix did not work for me.
I'm having the same issue and none of the fixes have worked. Microsoft, PLEASE help. I have hundreds of documents that don't print properly. I can't begin to count the hours I've put into trying fo find a solution, only to discover that apparently there isn't one.