Word intermittenly squishes the text of my entire document after I click the
print button. I can do several things to unsquish the text:

1. Save doc, close Word, and reopen doc
2. Change the font type or size
3. Change to a different printer and then back to the original
4. Change the view to Web Layout
5. Highlight all text and where format = Normal select Clear Formatting

I've recreated this problem using several different printer types, so I
don't think it's the printer driver. This is annoying. Why is it occurring?
Help!

Re: Word 2003 Squished Text by Graham

Graham
Mon Jan 23 23:11:41 CST 2006

According to contributor Bob Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow seems to
have Word misreading temporary files related to the printer currently in
use. You can usually 'unscramble' the display from File=>Print and switch
to the printer properties or to another printer then your normal one, or
close Word and delete all files found on Start=>Search and looking for
~$*.*;*.tmp as the name string then restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Kim wrote:
> Word intermittenly squishes the text of my entire document after I
> click the print button. I can do several things to unsquish the text:
>
> 1. Save doc, close Word, and reopen doc
> 2. Change the font type or size
> 3. Change to a different printer and then back to the original
> 4. Change the view to Web Layout
> 5. Highlight all text and where format = Normal select Clear
> Formatting
>
> I've recreated this problem using several different printer types, so
> I don't think it's the printer driver. This is annoying. Why is it
> occurring? Help!