Good Morning Brian
Thank you very much indeed for that quick and very helpful response.
I would have sworn I had checked and double checked all the obvious
'option's. Clearly another 'Senior Moment'!
On the list I read all your answers to we duffers and I would like to
you to know how much I appreciate the manner and the gracious style
in which you respond to us all ... no matter how dumb some of our
queries appear to be [even on occasion, to me!]
Yours aye
Ike Dawson
Gainford in Teesdale
At 16:52 21/04/2008, you wrote:
At 16:31 21/04/2008 +0100, Ike Dawson wrote:
I'm using OO 2.4 on a 3GHz Dell, 1 Gb Ram and 160 Gb HDD with 75%
+ free, Eudora, Win XP SP2 upto date
I received a Word 2003 document consisting of a two column wide
variable text table. It came as an attachment which I copied as a
*.DOC file to HDD then edited the *.DOC file in Writer very
successfully. I saved it as an *.ODT leaving the edit open on screen.
The Print Preview was normal, but when I tried Print All, only the
right hand pages printed on both the Inkjet HP895CXi and the HP Laserjet 4.
I saved the edited version from screen again this time to a USB
stick as a Word 97 document.
I plugged the stick into an old Win98 machine, opened the document
in Word 97, and having changed absolutely nothing, selected Print
All to the same Inkjet printer, and it printed beautifully ... all of it.
I closed the doc on the stick, and again I changed nothing. I just
plugged the USB stick back into the Dell XP, opened the same file
directly from the stick in Writer, selected Print All and once
again it printed right hand pages only.
This isn't the first time I've had difficulty with printing from
Writer 2.4: regularly I have to insert a blank page as page one of
a document to created and printed in *.ODT to get it to print.
Can anyone please suggest where I might be going wrong and what I might try?
Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print |
Pages. Do you have "Right pages" ticked but "Left pages" not
ticked? If so, add the tick and all should be well. Note that this
is the same options panel as you can reach on the fly during
printing by selecting Options... from the Print dialogue.
This setting affects your use of Writer, of course - not the
document itself. So you would expect the same document to print
correctly in another instance of suitable software, whether it be
Writer or Word - just as you have discovered.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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