Printing issue with Word

[qlark]

Is there a way to completely clean out a Word Documents history? Sort of like the repair and compress that is done in Access?

I have an enterprise application that must have ASCII strings (read printer fonts not truetype rastered fonts) in a print to file but for some reason Word 2000 (under XP Pro) is deciding to print in True Type fonts for some parts of a document and Printer fonts for the rest.

I have tried opening a blank document and doing a cut and paste ... this did work for the majority of the document but there must still be something telling Word and or the HP Printer driver that this one particular table field is/was a true type font.

The majority of the document consists of tables but all of the text is formatted as Printer Font Courier (PCL4 HP language)

 

[fumei]

I am not getting the reference to Word Documents history?

Gerry

 

[qlark]

Ok Word tends to keep history ... especially formatting history ... so the undo's will work but it seems this may not be the problem at all ... after exhastive testing I have narrowed down that a specific size of FONT in this case Courier 14 appears to want to convert to raster/truetype fonts ... I know that this is a valid font in Window 95 ... if I do a print to file in a new blank Word session with just the word TEST in courier 14 the file generated is unreadable ... if I set the font to 13 or 15 it works just fine so not sure why XP is treating this size differently?

 

[Madawc]

You could always [Save As] to "rich text" format, or even plain text. Then open this document from Word and save as regular word under another name (or in anothe folder). Anything suspect ought to be gone.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10