space between words

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Jo-Anne

I'm a new user of Word (2007) with a WinXP SP3 system. I've used WordPerfect
for many years. Recently, I brought into Word a letter, with my letterhead,
that I had created in WP. I deleted the body of the letter and typed a new
letter. It looked fine on screen; but when I printed it, there were all
sorts of weird spacings. For example:

extra spaces between some words (the text is left justified only)
a hypen that ran into the previous letter rather than appearing between two
letters
an em dash with a space before it

I saved the letter as a .doc file and brought it into WordPerfect. It
printed fine there.

What's likely to be the problem?

Thanks much!

Jo-Anne
 
I would suspect something with the Printer driver. See if there is an
updated version available on the Printer manufacturer's website.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
Thank you for the suggestion, Doug; but I think it's something else. If I
bring into Word a full WordPerfect document rather than cutting and pasting
from a WP document, the printing is fine. I just tried playing with
cut-and-paste between WordPerfect and Word, and it looks like if I do a
"paste special" and pick unformatted text, it prints OK in Word. Nothing
else works for printing pasted material.

Jo-Anne
 
Then it comes back to a printer driver issue. Make sure that you have the
latest driver from the manufacturer's support site, then delete and
reinstall the printer.

Terry
 
Thank you, Terry! But why, then, does the printer work fine in all other
programs--from WordPerfect to email to webpages?

Jo-Anne
 
Because Word uses the printer differently (and much harder) than other apps.
In fact, Word won't work at all without a compatible Printer driver set as
the Windows Default. Word interrogates the printer driver constantly to work
out how the printer should print the page: every printer is different.

Terry
 
Thank you again, Terry!

Jo-Anne

Terry Farrell said:
Because Word uses the printer differently (and much harder) than other
apps. In fact, Word won't work at all without a compatible Printer driver
set as the Windows Default. Word interrogates the printer driver
constantly to work out how the printer should print the page: every
printer is different.

Terry
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