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Subject:RE: MS Word--Page Breaks From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:53:26 -0400
>Hi All: I would like to know if anyone has encountered page break
>problems with MS Word. For example, you format a document perfectly
>with page breaks strategically placed, and another person opens
>that document but sees blank pages and odd page breaks. Now on this
>topic, I've been told that the printer you're using affects the where the
page breaks appear.
So does the fonts and font version on the other person's machine, what the
.dot uses, what printer they are using, etc.
>Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Obviously, I would like to
>format a document that appears the same no matter what printer you're
using.
> Is that possible with MS Word? TIA!
No. Convert it to a PDF first
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