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Win XP system, on Word 2002 the document seems to be fine, but when you go to print preview, there would be missing text on the bottom (about 3 inches will be cut off.)
The margin was checked, printer driver is the latest, and all updates were installed.

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by carollong

Seen similar symptoms in various version of Word for a few reasons which gives me a quick list of stuff to check: Conflict between the paper sizes (A4, Letter) for the document and the printer set-up. The (old style tractor drive) printer had a physical limit with cut paper that meant it cold get to the very bottom of the page (you don't say what printer) but the document was orginally formated using a laser printer. There was a graphic in the footer that rose to the top in print preview but innormal view you saw the text because the footer way "grayed out". And one was because of a conflict in page & footer size margin where the file had some sort of corruption.
Hope this gives you somewhere to start.

by carollong

Seen similar symptoms in various version of Word for a few reasons which gives me a quick list of stuff to check: Conflict between the paper sizes (A4, Letter) for the document and the printer set-up. The (old style tractor drive) printer had a physical limit with cut paper that meant it cold get to the very bottom of the page (you don't say what printer) but the document was orginally formated using a laser printer. There was a graphic in the footer that rose to the top in print preview but innormal view you saw the text because the footer way "grayed out". And one was because of a conflict in page & footer size margin where the file had some sort of corruption.
Hope this gives you somewhere to start.

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