Who is good with Word 2003?

[jyeh74]

I have Office 2003 installed on both my laptop and my desktop. I have the same "page setup" on both. But on my desktop, when I use Word 2003 to make a page border, when I click on "Print preview", the bottom part of the border will not appear or print.

When I go to FORMAT and BORDERS AND SHADING and then go to PAGE BORDER tab, it doesn't matter what I use: Box, Shadow, 3D, Custom or what width I use, the bottom part will never print.

My Page Setup is the same on both my desktop and laptop.
Top: 1" Bottom: 1"
Left: 1.25" Right: 1.25"
Gutter: 0" Gutter Position: Left

What is the issue? Its weird because my laptop will print and view the whole page border, but my desktop will have all 3 sides of the page border, except the bottom border.

[jyeh74]

I read online that you can change the printer options from LETTER to A4. When I did that, and I go to Print Preview, I can see all 4 page borders. However, when I print it, the bottom border still doesn't print. Can anyone please help? I have a HP 2400 printer using Windows XP and Word 2003.

[Midzuki]

I hope that I am wrong in this case, but I guess your
OS has been "screwed" somehow. According to my personal experience,
the MS Office applications now and then "normally" manifest some issues with printer drivers
and with the system printing routines themselves. I still am trying to
"heal" my OS from a recent rootkit infection, and one of the remaining symptoms is,
Internet Exploder now simply makes the HP printer output unreadable garbage.
Hope you find a way to *not* need to reinstall Winword or the entire operating system.

[jyeh74]

so uninstall and reinstall?
anyone else heard of this problem with Word 03?

[guns1inger]

It basically sounds like a mismatch between your document size and the paper sizes selected. Perhaps installing the latest HP driver will fix it. Perhaps simply reinstalling Office or just running the repair option will fix it. Midzuki's tainted personal experience aside, mostly these problems are down to operator error (but then so it allowing a root kit to be installed), and can usually be fixed by simply going through the configuration carefully looking for the miss set parameter. Start by doing a comparison of version of office and printer drivers between the two machines. Make sure you have the latest Office service pack and updates installed. Then, go through the printer and page settings for the desktop and the laptop and look for differences.

[Midzuki]

Necessary "off-topic" addendum: this time I do have to agree with gunslinger ---
when the antivirus software and the OS warmfixes do not do what they are supposed to do,
the final responsability for the eventual disaster is always in the hands of the
"incurably ignorant-and-trollish" end-user.

Pffft...

[vhelp]

Actually, this might be a "printer issue" that is causing this phenomina. I will bet that even though you have two *same* office 2003 setup on two computers, that your printer make/model is different.

What you could try (and report back -- we love followup reports, you know) is *ADDING* that same printer you use at work and see if the problem goes away. Set up a printer driver on your home computer to match that of your office computer and it should go away.. logically speaking, it should work.. Volcan talk, I guess.

-vhelp 4754