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Why won't Word print the pages of a file? It will print them if
printed as File/Print/Current Page, but not by specifying "All" or a
print range.
The background:
Once upon a time my father wrote a book (about his escape from a
Communist hard-labor prison in Czecholslovakia). He wrote it on an
Apple Powerbook 150 with whatever version of Word we were using in
1994. (maybe 1993?) He died in 1996. The files have been moved to
various machines, stuffed, unstuffed, opened/saved in various
versions of Word both Apple and PC and are now converted to MS Word
2000 on a PC - where they were edited on one machine, zipped and
emailed to me. I'm trying to print them off my PC.
The problem:
Each chapter is a file. Most of them won't print the whole chapter.
If I choose "print all" some will print the last 3 pages of the file.
Adding a page break and getting it to print doesn't reveal any
consistency. Other files will print if I specify the range, but not
all of them. I've tried to "select all" and copy to a new file. Same
problem. I've tried to print as .txt, .rtf etc.
I'm sure that the problem was created by all the transformations over
the years. Anyone know how I can fix it, so I can print a chapter at
a time? I could take it back to a Mac - that's the one thing I
haven't tried yet..
Thanks for your help.
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