As Jay noted the likely cause is an infinite repagination loop. Does your
document include graphics or embedded objects? If so then that could be a
cause of your problem.
I don't necessarily have a lot of specifics on this, but from what I can
gather it has to do with the paragraph the object is anchored to.
Word is attempting to keep the paragraph on the page, and since the object
is also anchored to the paragraph it's trying to keep it on the page, so it
goes to the next page, and tries the same and fails again,
so it goes into a continuous repagination loop.
It may have to do with the Keep Lines Together Property or it could be one
paragraph is spanning multiple pages and the object is looking for a
paragraph mark to anchor to, and cannot find it,because no paragraph either
begins or ends on that page.
The best way to attempt to correct the problem is to install another printer
driver (note you don't need a physical printer to do this) and if your
current printer is an ink jet then install a laser jet and vice-versa. An
ink jet and laser jet have different print areas so chances are another
printer driver will paginate the document differently so you don't encounter
the infinite pagination issue. Note you'll need to switch to the newly
installed printer prior to opening the document in Word. Either set it as
the default or open any document, go to File/Print, select the printer, then
close the dialog box without actually printing. If the document opens
without the pagination issue then check the items I noted above.
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
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