Microsoft Office 2007 (beta) printing problem fixed! By me….. September 10, 2006
Posted by ioannusdeverani in Beta Software, Bugs, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Windows.trackback
‘It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an awesome genius! It’s— ME!!!!!’
If any of my readers have downloaded the awesome MSOffice 2007 beta, and have been extremely disappointed when they had to print something, and it printed either hugemongously big, or tinimissimo-ly small, TA-DA! I am the solution!
Before I finish bragging about how I am THE handy-fixit-awesome-guy, I will explain to those who wit not, what the actual problem was. In a nutshell, briefly, to make a long story short, so as not to take too long, first and foremost, for a variety of reasons, I will attempt to keep this as succinct, consise, and short as is humanly possible without losing essential details and points…
People having printing problems in Office fell into two categories: the absurdly big printers, and the absurdly small printers. Therefore, some people had their pages print out absurdly large, and others absurdly small. For big-o-matic-print-people, it occured when the resolution was set on Normal or higher. Printing worked fine for Draught. For the teeny-tiny-print-people, it occured when the resolution was set at Draught. When set higher, it worked fine.
On forums, there are many so-called ’solutions’, or workarounds, like uninstalling and reinstalling your printer, using the PDF conversion thingy, or changing the locale to australian english…….. But these don’t always work, and if they do, it is usually a temporary fix.
I was reading a thread on the subject, and it said, set the printing resolution to the desired thingummmie before printing (i.e. change the defaults in Printers and Faxes in Control Panel). I found that for the big-o-matic-print-people, you could set your print default on Normal, and then when printing, you could print normal, and it would work, and if you wanted another setting, you could just go into the properties dialog when printing, and it would work fine.
For the teeny-tiny-print-people, you can do the same thing, except set the default as Draught in the Control Panel. Then, any printer resolution will work correctly.
If this post has saved anyone a lot of trouble and pain, I would encourage this person to send me money. To do so, email me at verani@verani.org.
try to do some shapes and then PRINT !
Excel Print Anythink less the shapes you do.
Print in office 2007 is a pain in the ass!
Save and open on office 2003 then print.
Francisco: are you saying that AFTER my solution, shapes do not print? If you would use slightly proper grammar, I might understand what you are complaining about……
Thanks,
Ioannus
Unfortunately, my printer, Canon PIXMA iP1500, doesn’t support this setting, and my printing from office 07 often results in documents being too big or too small. Sometimes, I find that it would print normally after a restart, but results vary. Damn you office 07
THANK YOU
Unfortunately, my printer,EPSON STYLUS C41UX, doesn’t support this setting, and my printing from office 07 often results in documents being too big or too small!, also i need to print my resume by today… i saved my document as a pdf but it was big in there as well
anyway can anyone help me?
Yea it worked, but i used up 100 sheets of A4 and an ink cartrage before i had the sence to look into a forum forsimilar victims of Microsoft Office 2007 Beta, what a f***ng bummer, a real bummer !!
sell a program that is baced on printing, and does’nt print.
Bravo Bill, you took them to the cleaners again.
Oh’ and by the way Verani, thanks allot, you saved me fortune on Valium tablets and a trip to the Loony bin.
If i had any cash i would have sent you something, next time.
Greek-Scotsman, Athens Greece
I wonder who could help me with something that microsoft support couldn’t…It’s the story of an old printer (HP895cse) hooked up to my notebook (HPpavillondv1000) which was doing fine on my trial version of Office 2003. Then it expired. My nephew tried to print a Word document, which came out with a terriblle quality partial print. I then loaded my new product key and we tried again. Same result. The print test is fine, other applications are fine, we disinstalled the printer driver and reinstalled it, disinstalled the software and reinstalled it, did a bunch of other troubleshooting steps, to no avail. I have now sent my Word documents to another printer(HP300 something) and they print fine, so the software I loaded is not in cause. It has to be something between Office and the printer, but what????
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
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