Word won't print the last 2 lines, it's driving me crazy

[KLC]

This morning my son had an assignment he had to print out and hand in. It was two short paragraphs in Word 2003, the last line was about 4 inches from the bottom of the page. The last two lines on the page wouldn't print. The lines are visible on the screen, they are visible in Print Preview but the printout is blank on the last two lines of text.

I copied the text and pasted it into a new document, they still wouldn't print. I pasted the text into Wordpad, they wouldn't print. I pasted the text into Notepad and they finally printed.

There is no custom formatting in the document, no footer, no random codes. He just opened Word, typed his paragraphs and tried to print it out. The crazy thing is that this same thing happened about 2 months ago with the same son and also with an important assignment. Since then we have created and printed dozens of Word documents with no problem. Anybody have an idea what is going on?

 

[MrChad]

Have you adjusted the printer settings at all, such as margins? Perhaps the margins in the Word document are too narrow and the printer won't support it.

 

[KLC]

It's set at the default margins, 1.25" L and R, 1" top and bottom.

 

[GaryJohnson]

It printed in notepad. Copy it from notepad to a new word document. Does it still not print?

 

[KLC]

Gary, yes after pasting into Notepad and then repasting into Word it printed everything, so something was stripped out of the file, but what?

I asked my son again last night, he said he just clicked on the desktop Word icon, typed up his assignment and tried to print it, no custom formatting of any kind.

 

[GaryJohnson]

Word supports hidden text; possibly he hit a shortcut key for hidden text by mistake?

In word's options you can tell it to print hidden text. In word 2003: Tools Menu -> Options -> Print tab -> Under the Include with Document section Check the Hidden Text check box

You can also check the specific text to see if it's hidden and unhide it. Select the text and select Font from the Format menu. Then look for the "hidden" checkbox on the font tab.

 

[Edgy]

try paste into Notepad --> then paste special into Excel with option "text" --> copy (not cell but text) from Excel to Word again and print.

Alternatively if you know Excel functions, you can use the cell formula to REMOVE all hidden/special characters from text within cells.

Not sure how this can be done in Word ... maybe someone knows.

 

[corkyg]

Sounds like your original Word doc has some hidden codes. The Notepad work around confirms that. Does Word have a reveal codes function? If not . . .

http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/reveal-the-codes.htm