Microsoft KB Archive/31253

Initial Characters Missing from Print File

PSS ID Number: Q31253 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00 5.50

MS-DOS

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When you are printing an interior portion of a large document (about 50 pages or more) to a Print File, the first three to five characters of the Print File are either corrupted or missing.

This problem occurs when you are printing either a selection of a document or groups of pages within a document.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with Word version 4.00. This problem was corrected beginning with Word version 5.00.

The workaround for this problem is to open a new window in Word and copy the selection or pages of the file into the new window before doing the Print File. A simple macro could be constructed to perform this operation.

This problem occurs no matter what printer is being used; it is not unique to PostScript printers. However, this problem is more evident when a PostScript print file is created because the PostScript printer is more sensitive to the information it receives. If a PostScript printer does not receive the correct first characters of a file, the results may be unpredictable, from no output to garbled output.

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