Hi there,
We had a document created in office 2000, printing on legal paper. Now
we upgraded to office 2003, for some reason Word 2003 is trying to
print on letter format and somehow is compressing the fonts to fit on
letter size format, althrough on the printer it prints on legal but
the contents seem compressed as through it is trying to print on
letter format. So the document instead of taking up entire legal page
space and using normal arial font, it is printed only on 2/3 of the
document with a smaller arial font and there is blank at the end. Is
it something we need to configure on Word 2003? Thank you, T

"Tester" <calinguga@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:f7e14a07-ca14-40ba-9354-483a824c44fc@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Hi there,
> We had a document created in office 2000, printing on legal paper. Now
> we upgraded to office 2003, for some reason Word 2003 is trying to
> print on letter format and somehow is compressing the fonts to fit on
> letter size format, althrough on the printer it prints on legal but
> the contents seem compressed as through it is trying to print on
> letter format. So the document instead of taking up entire legal page
> space and using normal arial font, it is printed only on 2/3 of the
> document with a smaller arial font and there is blank at the end. Is
> it something we need to configure on Word 2003? Thank you, T


I don't know about yours, as it may be a driver issue, but the print
dialog screen that comes up when you ask it to print has a "zoom" control.
That has several options including scaling one or more pages to fit the
paper. You also get to choose the paper size at that point. If I were to
chose letter size paper and scale to fit, it should do exactly what you are
seeing. Is that it? Does that help?


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Joseph Meehan

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On Mar 26, 3:49*pm, "Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAM...********.com>
wrote:
> "Tester" <caling...@netscape.net> wrote in message
>
> news:f7e14a07-ca14-40ba-9354-483a824c44fc@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hi there,
> > We had a document created in office 2000, printing on legal paper. Now
> > we upgraded to office 2003, for some reason Word 2003 is trying to
> > print on letter format and somehow is compressing the fonts to fit on
> > letter size format, althrough on the printer it prints on legal but
> > the contents seem compressed as through it is trying to print on
> > letter format. So the document instead of taking up entire legal page
> > space and using normal arial font, it is printed only on 2/3 of the
> > document with a smaller arial font and there is blank at the end. Is
> > it something we need to configure on Word 2003? Thank you, T
>
> * * I don't know about yours, as it may be a driver issue, but the print
> dialog screen that comes up when you ask it to print has a "zoom" control.
> That has several options including scaling one or more pages to fit the
> paper. *You also get to choose the paper size at that point. *If I were to
> chose letter size paper and scale to fit, it should do exactly what you are
> seeing. *Is that it? *Does that help?
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> *Dia 's Muire duit

Hi there,
There is no scaling selected[scale to paper size-no scaling and pages
per sheet-one page]. It prints the same on all printers(HP, Dell).
What Word 2003 is exactly doing in the background is replacing arial
12 with arial 10 fond and it prints all the contents to fit on
lettersize, altough it prints on legal so there is some white space
left at the end. With Word 2000 prints OK, arial 12 and full legal
document. Any ideas what should I try ? Thanks a lot, T

"Tester" <calinguga@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:66cee8a4-14c0-4c49-ae51-7554957d9298@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> On Mar 26, 3:49 pm, "Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAM...********.com>
> wrote:
>> "Tester" <caling...@netscape.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:f7e14a07-ca14-40ba-9354-483a824c44fc@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > Hi there,
>> > We had a document created in office 2000, printing on legal paper. Now
>> > we upgraded to office 2003, for some reason Word 2003 is trying to
>> > print on letter format and somehow is compressing the fonts to fit on
>> > letter size format, althrough on the printer it prints on legal but
>> > the contents seem compressed as through it is trying to print on
>> > letter format. So the document instead of taking up entire legal page
>> > space and using normal arial font, it is printed only on 2/3 of the
>> > document with a smaller arial font and there is blank at the end. Is
>> > it something we need to configure on Word 2003? Thank you, T
>>
>> I don't know about yours, as it may be a driver issue, but the print
>> dialog screen that comes up when you ask it to print has a "zoom"
>> control.
>> That has several options including scaling one or more pages to fit the
>> paper. You also get to choose the paper size at that point. If I were to
>> chose letter size paper and scale to fit, it should do exactly what you
>> are
>> seeing. Is that it? Does that help?
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Meehan
>>
>> Dia 's Muire duit
>
> Hi there,
> There is no scaling selected[scale to paper size-no scaling and pages
> per sheet-one page]. It prints the same on all printers(HP, Dell).
> What Word 2003 is exactly doing in the background is replacing arial
> 12 with arial 10 fond and it prints all the contents to fit on
> lettersize, altough it prints on legal so there is some white space
> left at the end. With Word 2000 prints OK, arial 12 and full legal
> document. Any ideas what should I try ? Thanks a lot, T

Sorry, I am out of ideas.

I suppose you could try a repair of Word or check Window's regional
settings, but I don't see where that should make a difference. Repair
might.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit