Microsoft KB Archive/93407

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 * Microsoft Word for Macintosh, versions 5.0 and 5.1

SUMMARY
In Word for the Macintosh, the following happens when you select the PostScript File option to print a series of documents you connected using the File Series command:

 The first document in the series prints to a PostScript file, and the rest of the documents print to the printer.  All documents except the first document continue to print to the printer in the following descending pattern: Second, third, fourth, fifth and additional documents print again. Third, fourth, fifth and additional documents print again. Fourth, fifth and additional documents print again. Fifth and additional documents print again. And so on until only the last document prints again. 

This happens because Word for the Macintosh cannot print documents connected using the File Series command to a PostScript file. This problem does not occur if you select the Printer option instead of the PostScript File option when you print the file.

MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in versions 5.0 and 5.1 of Word for the Macintosh. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Workaround
Connect the documents by creating a main document that uses INCLUDE instructions to insert the contents of the specified documents in the main document. To print the main document, choose Print Merge from the File menu. Select the PostScript File option in the Print dialog box.

Reference(s):

&quot;Microsoft Word User's Guide,&quot; version 5.0, pages 100-101, 225-227
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Last reviewed: July 30, 1997

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