Problem with MS Word

[Kortpeel (imported)]

Windows 7, MS Word 2010 Problem

Sometimes but not always MS Word will print out a document so that there is just one character per line. even though it looks perfectly ok on the screen. I have checked margin and tab settings and they are not the cause of it. It doesn't appear to be a printer problem either. Word displays on the screen what it is going to print before the document gets to the printer.

I suspect it is a setting problem, buried deep in Word or Windows where it takes several clicks to get to it and you have to know what to get to in order to solve it.

Has anyone else had this problem and what the heck should I do to fix it?

[Wolf-Pup (imported)]

What kind of printer is it? Are you using a driver that came with Windows, or one from the maker of the printer? If you aren't using one from the manufacturer check to see if they have a driver for it (Vista driver should work also).

[janekane (imported)]

Such things have happened to me, using Microsoft Word and using Open Office, but not using Corel WordPerfect.

When such happens to me, I plug the document into Notepad++ to see what is there that Microsoft Word or Open Office hides.

[Cainanite (imported)]

I'm very protective of my copy of Corel Wordperfect 9. It was a great little program, and served me well for many years. I currently use Open Office because it is much more friendly at opening other documents from other formats. It is set up almost identically to Word Perfect or Microsoft Word.

I've never had the problem you write about, but I have used the same HP printer for years.

Notepad++ is a terrific program for some of my needs, but is a little too literal in the way it works for my tastes.

Both Wolf-Pup and janekane are correct.

If the one character-per-line issue happens all the time, it is probably a printer setting or driver.

If it only happens occasionally, with documents you open, and not documents you write, then you could try opening the document in Notepad++ (a free program you can download online) and it will reveal any formatting issues the document might have.

Open Office remains my program of preference, because the latest version has a robust conversion ability, that allows it to open pretty much any format you can think of. Open Office is just as free as Notepad++, but just as powerful(if not more so) as Microsoft Word.

[curious_guy (imported)]

Open Office remains my program of preference,

Does Open Office have a grammar checker? If it does, how does it compare to the one in Word Perfect?

[Cainanite (imported)]

Does Open Office have a grammar checker? If it does, how does it compare to the one in Word Perfect?

Yes it does.

I've found it to be almost identical. The nice part is that (as open source) you can download for free, new attachment/add-ons for different languages and such.

I highly recommend it. Anyone familiar with the Microsoft Office Suite will find Open Office very familiar, and easy.

My main desktop computer came bundled with the full version of the Microsoft Office suite, and I was happy with it. Unfortunately, my netbook had no such software on it. I downloaded Open Office as a temporary measure until I could afford the full Microsoft suite. It turned out that I liked Open Office so much, that I installed it on my main desktop as well, and eventually deleted the Microsoft Office program to save room.

I haven't noticed anything I'm missing. Of course, YMMV. (Your Mileage May Vary.)

As a free program though, you've nothing to lose by trying it.

[janekane (imported)]

The computer system I am using, most of the time, for Eunuch Archive access runs Windows XP 32 bit, with 2.5 gigabytes of RAM and terrabytes of hard disk space. That has allowed me to have installed a valid license Microsoft Office, Open Office, and Corel WordPerfect (X5), along with GNU Emacs, Notepad ++ and a gaggle of other sometimey-useful software tools.

For my personal needs, WordPerfect hides nothing I find useful to know or understand from me; perhaps my being autistic (my subjectively experiential world is made of, and only of, an agglomeration of minute details), and Word and Open Office busily correct, on my behalf, many errors that I never made. Ugh!

WordPerfect, along with Peachtext, Magic Wand, and a few other "primitive" word processing programs treat me with what I find to be decent respect regarding my intended use of words in context.

Magic Wand? Runs well with CP/M 2.2.03 on a Heath/Zenith H89 computer, of which I have one main one, replete with its 10 megabyte hard disk drive, and a supply of other people's discards; enough, I surmise, to last many decades past my probable remaining life. Back in the mid 1980s, I found Magic Wand to be far easier t o use than Wordstar.

But then, I wrote most of the programs for my first home computer (A Librascope/General Precision LGP-30) in its Interpreter, which was named, "Dictator."

Yeah. I had a home computer system in the 1960s. Semiconductor diode logic board. Rotating drum memory. Rotating drum registers. A half-horsepower synchronous motor to drive the drum. A Frieden Flexowriter as the Input-Output console.

When I found a way to upgrade the LGP-30 to an RPC-4000, I gave the LGP-30 to my brother. Who later took it apart and tossed out most of it. Pity.

The RPC-4000 was replaced by a DEC LSI-11, which was replaced by that Heathkit/Zenith H89.

I have the LSI-11. And it still works and can run software I wrote for it when I find that software to be useful. It is easier for me to turn on the LSI-11 than re-write the software to run, say, on a PC with Microsoft Power Station Fortran 90. Or C++.

I was given about 7 months from the time my thesis committee accepted my thesis proposal until I was required to defend my dissertation. The university had a rule that not less than a year had to elapse between thesis committee thesis acceptance and dissertation defense. Nonetheless, my committee unanimously approved my dissertation. Then I was dismissed as a graduate student. Then I set about with the grievance process, resulting in my being un-dismissed.

Of what happened to me, I wrote to the Chancellor's office that I found what happened to me to be a serious example of academic fraud.

Would my life be better were I to be truly a genuine coward when I subjectively experience the presence of destructive authoritarian tyranny?

What on earth has what I just wrote to do with word processors?

I do not allow a mere computer program to redefine my intended meaning, and, of all the word processing programs I have yet been able to glom onto, WordPerfect X5 is the one which least treats me with forms of what I experience as unconscionable tyrannical correcting of mistakes I never made.

Good Grief!

Sorry about that.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Yes it does.

I've found it to be almost identical. The nice part is that (as open source) you can download for free, new attachment/add-ons for different languages and such.

I highly recommend it. Anyone familiar with the Microsoft Office Suite will find Open Office very familiar, and easy.

My main desktop computer came bundled with the full version of the Microsoft Office suite, and I was happy with it. Unfortunately, my netbook had no such software on it. I downloaded Open Office as a temporary measure until I could afford the full Microsoft suite. It turned out that I liked Open Office so much, that I installed it on my main desktop as well, and eventually deleted the Microsoft Office program to save room.

I haven't noticed anything I'm missing. Of course, YMMV. (Your Mileage May Vary.)

As a free program though, you've nothing to lose by trying it.

I totally agree, I have used Open Office for years, whats nice is that one system is windows 7 the other is Debian and files float freely between the two without a problem, just as powerful as Microsoft but the best part of it is that is FREE.

River

[curious_guy (imported)]

Yes it does.

I've found it to be almost identical. The nice part is that (as open source) you can download for free, new attachment/add-ons for different languages and such.

I highly recommend it. Anyone familiar with the Microsoft Office Suite will find Open Office very familiar, and easy.

I have never used Microsoft Office Suite. I use Word Perfect Version 12 and X3. Do you think I would find Open Office easy to learn?

I sometimes collaborate with other writers. What I usually do is make changes and put the changes in a different color. Does Open Office have a feature that would automatically put my changes in a different color?

The grammar checker in Word Perfect thinks that "cum" is a foreign word for "with" and not a synonym for "orgasm" or "semen." Is Open Office the same?

[Dave (imported)]

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The grammar checker in Word Perfect thinks that "cum" is a foreign word for "with" and not a synonym for "orgasm" or "semen." Is Open Office the same?

If anything, they are worse at the spell check for obscene words.