Beth
Fri Aug 24 11:32:49 CDT 2007
I suspect once you saw how handy it can actually be you'd understand that it
is indeed a feature, but, Oy! I realize what you are encountering now. Yeah,
if the document has been saved in Outline View then Word will open the file
and issue the Print command and you end up with a printed Outline view.
You could head over to one of the Word VBA newsgroups and see if anyone has
a sample macro you can modify that will loop through all of the documents in
a folder, open them, switch the view, and then save and close if you think
that will help. This is fairly simple to do.
Also note if all you are doing is opening a document and changing the view
this change will not be saved. You need to modify the document content in
some way, such as type a space and then press Backspace.
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
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"IndexTurret" <IndexTurret@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5721C00C-8D7F-4062-98D2-8AE675F64E23@microsoft.com...
> Oh! I see. That makes sense. So it is a feature after all. However, this
> means that I can't send docs to the printer directly from a file-mgmt app
> like Win Explorer or PowerDesk (using right-click>Print) and have them
> print
> the "correct" way. I have to open each one individually and change View to
> Print Layout, then print from within Word. I guess there's no help for
> that.
> Ah well. Thanks for giving me a reasonable rationale for why it's the way
> it
> is. Makes sense.
>
> "Beth Melton" wrote:
>
>> This isn't a bug, it's actually a feature. :-)
>>
>> The ability to print an outline for a document is a big request so if you
>> print directly from Outline View that's what you get. Perhaps if you had
>> a
>> better idea of how this is typically used that would help you see the
>> feature aspect. Collapse your outline to say, Level 2 so you see only
>> Heading 1 and Heading 2 and send the document to the printer. The result
>> is
>> a printed outline of your document and can make a handy reference.
>>
>> Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
>> assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Beth Melton
>> Microsoft Office MVP
>>
>> Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook
>>
>> Word FAQ:
http://mvps.org/word
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>> MVP FAQ site:
http://mvps.org/
>>
>> "IndexTurret" <IndexTurret@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2B5FB421-80B4-426A-8570-51222C3EDC45@microsoft.com...
>> > Hey Microsoft, this sure appears to be a bug to me. Don't have time to
>> > navigate your labyrinthine universe of websites to figure out a better
>> > place
>> > to report it.
>> > I send my outlined document (in which most paragraphs are Heading
>> > styles,
>> > thus forming an outline easily edited in Outline View) to my printer,
>> > and
>> > instead of printing with the correct paragraph formatting (that is,
>> > what
>> > Print Preview shows), it prints on paper with the paragraph formatting
>> > that's
>> > SUPPOSED to be only on-screen when in outline view (single-spaced, no
>> > hanging
>> > indent, left indent set artificially based on outline level). That
>> > on-screen,
>> > Outline-View-only paragraph formatting is NOT supposed to go to the
>> > printer!
>> >
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