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Old March 21st, 2005, 04:42 PM
Writers-ink Writers-ink is offline
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Question Printing a master document

Hi-
I am having a problem printing a 45MB users manual. It was created (by someone else) as a Master document with 20 subdocuments, a table of contents, and an index.

I am using Word 2000 in a Windows 98 environment, and I have an 80 GB harddrive. When I try to print two specific sections I get the message "insufficient memory or disk space. Word cannot display the requested font." The printer will then print out a Times Roman font instead of the Ariel font. I have tried printing section by section, and page by page in these sections, but it still won't print these pages with the proper font.

There are many graphics that reside in another directory and do show up on the screen in the proper places.

I have turned off the background printing feature, and the A4 resizing feature.

The printer is an HP LaserJet 4Plus.

If I reboot, it still won't print properly. Can anyone help? This document is due on Thursday and I'm just at a complete loss. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Maureen

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Old June 10th, 2005, 06:13 PM
Charles Kenyon
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Never, ever edit the contents of a subdocument from within the Master!

Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master
Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only
doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited
exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups
is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your
document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even
working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there
are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that
will be corrupt soon. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm for more
information on what goes wrong, and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm for ideas on how
to salvage what you can. See
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...masterdocs.doc for
Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very
carefully.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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Hi-
I am having a problem printing a 45MB users manual. It was created (by
someone else) as a Master document with 20 subdocuments, a table of
contents, and an index.

I am using Word 2000 in a Windows 98 environment, and I have an 80 GB
harddrive. When I try to print two specific sections I get the message
"insufficient memory or disk space. Word cannot display the requested
font." The printer will then print out a Times Roman font instead of
the Ariel font. I have tried printing section by section, and page by
page in these sections, but it still won't print these pages with the
proper font.

There are many graphics that reside in another directory and do show up
on the screen in the proper places.

I have turned off the background printing feature, and the A4 resizing
feature.

The printer is an HP LaserJet 4Plus.

If I reboot, it still won't print properly. Can anyone help? This
document is due on Thursday and I'm just at a complete loss. Thanks for
any help you can give me.
Maureen


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Writers-ink



 




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