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November 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM
markt_a1b

Printing "Poison Pill" Within M$ Word Document?

by markt_a1b . Updated 14 years, 7 months ago

Apologies if this has been covered before, but searching the archives has so far turned up nothing close. I have a 15-page document created in Word 97 (under Win XP) that *looks* perfectly normal on the screen, but which, when viewed in Print Preview or when printed to paper, simply skips everything at a point starting on page 3, and then adds the very last paragraph (from page 15) of the document immediately after that. I get the same results under Vista and Word 2007, as well as when the document is saved as a Word for Mac 4.x and 5.x document, and opened on (and printed from) that platform. Likewise, the exact same behavior is observed when the document is “printed” to Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.x (under the above Win XP configuration) and 8.x (under the above Vista configuration).

I have searched for hidden Control characters and the like, but to no avail. It is as though there is some sort of “poison pill” embedded within this otherwise normal-acting file that prevents it from being printed (or made into a PDF file) in its entirety.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? I will be happy to provide a copy of the file, upon request to markt_a1b at yahoo.com

Thanks!

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