[dba-Tech] OT: Word printing problem

On 6/22/07, Andy Lacey <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi folks
> Here's an odd thing that's happening to a friend.
>
> Running Word 97 on WXP machine he goes to print his doc (any doc). If he
> uses Print Preview then prints all is fine. If he uses the printer icon from
> the toolbar, fine. However if he goes File, Print from the menu the doc goes
> into spooling (seen in the printer queue) but never prints and the doc just
> closes of its own accord. Whoa! Bizarre. No problem in other Office 97
> components (not in Excel at least). Oh and this is happening on two
> different machines, one desktop one laptop.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this or have any ideas?

Try renaming normal.dot and let Word rebuild it.

Then try File|Print again.

If not, try following the steps here:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=197827&Search=true&Forum=wrd&Words=&Match=StarPost&Searchpage=0&Limit=20&Old=allposts&Main=197827

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