Microsoft KB Archive/117759

Printing Landscape Tabs In Publisher Produces Unwanted Output

PSS ID Number: Q117759 Article last modified on 03-10-1997

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= SYMPTOMS =

When you are printing using tabs or tab leaders to an inkjet or dot-matrix type printer in landscape mode from Microsoft Publisher, unwanted characters such as brackets appear on the page in place of tabs, or tab leaders intermittently disappear.

= WORKAROUND =


 * 1) Select the text frame that contains the misprinting tabs.
 * 2) From the Edit menu, choose Cut. This moves the text to the Windows Clipboard.
 * 3) From the Edit menu, choose Paste Special, and select Picture. Choose OK.

The new text should reappear and should print without issue. Note the text will no longer be in a format that Publisher can edit, due to the objects transformation to a bitmap picture. This workaround will only work with a single text frame. If the text frame containing the tab leaders is the second or greater in a linked chain, the paste special will result in a blank graphic containing no text. To correct this, create a new frame, copy and paste the text from the problem frame into it. Then proceed with the workaround using the new text frame.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Due to a design limitation in Microsoft Publisher, printers that use a moving or banding print-head experience this sort of print limitation.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Publisher versions 1.x and 2.0 and 2.0a. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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