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Subject:RE: Word printing problem From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:25:45 -0500
Well, off the top of my head, I'd say those gridlines require a lot of processing time on the part of the printer, just as elaborate illustrations do.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Partridge [mailto:rob -at- holly -dot- com -dot- au]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:45 AM
Subject: Word printing problem
Hi all,
I've got a document with about 25 pages of tables of various sizes (none of them more than a page in length). The tables all have a shaded heading, and mixtures of types of gridlines in them. Generally they have thin lines inside, and thick borders. When I completed it, my client said it took about 30mins to print. No good for them.
So, thinking it was a doc error, I did a copy paste into a new doc excluding the last paragraph mark thinking that there was a bug. No joy. Then I recreated the doc, pasting the text into a new doc and reformatting the tables, etc. In doing so, forgot to do the internal gridlines. The print time was down to 2mins!
Unfortunately they complained about the missing gridlines, so I added them back in. Guess what... print time back up to 30mins. Any ideas why adding thin gridlines to a few tables would cause problems?
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