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Subject:Re: Word 2010 print disparity From:Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:00:38 +0300
Isn't possible that your Word 2013 doc had things that Word 2010 doesn't
support? I believe Word had a way to check things like that.
Is sending him a PDF an option?
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I created a new technical user manual for a client in Word 2013, saving it
> in DOCX format. All looks as it should on my system. The DOCX was emailed
> to the client.
>
> Yesterday afternoon the client showed me his printoutâit was an abhorrent
> mess! He had printed it from Word 2010.
>
> What could be the reasons why this happened?
>
> I suggested to the client that:
>
> - It could be he saved my DOCX as a DOC before printing and that this
> caused the corruption.
>
> - More likely, he has incorrect printer driver installed on his system.
>
> Other ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> > Chris
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