Microsoft KB Archive/915172

= Text may not appear as expected when you print a workbook in Excel 2004 for Mac =

Article ID: 915172

Article Last Modified on 3/24/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac

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SYMPTOMS
When you print a workbook in Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
 * Wrapped text in a cell does not print as expected. For example, text appears in adjacent cells, contains extra spaces, or is truncated.
 * Cell borders that use double, thin dash-dot-dot, or thin dash-dot patterns do not print as expected.
 * Double underlines print as single thick underlines.
 * The text to which you applied the Outline effect is bold.

You may also experience this problem when you click Preview in the Print dialog box.

This problem does not occur in Microsoft Excel X for Mac.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if the print quality is set to Normal.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, set the print quality to High. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Start Excel 2004 for Mac.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Page Setup.
 * 3) In the Print quality list, click High, and then click OK.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Additional query words: wysiwyg resolution dpi

Keywords: kbtshoot kbprint kbprb KB915172

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