Word 2007 doc formatting XP vs Win 7

[rluna68]

Hello,



Our desktop PCs run XP Pro SP3 and Office 2007 SP2. We have three new laptops running Windows 7 Pro SP1 with Office 2007 SP2. When we create a document on the XP machines and then view it on Win 7 PCs, the formatting goes "wacky". For example, we have a doc with a title page (graphic and a few text boxes). In the Win 7 PCs, everything after the title page is lower on the page or moves to the next page. In XP (on various PCs) it looks just fine.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Stefan Blom]

Most likely, this is caused by the printer driver. If you are using the same printer for all computers, make sure that you have a driver that is up to date for the Windows 7 computers. See also http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TextReflow.htm.

[rluna68]

For some reason, the company wanted an editable format and so there was no way to get around this issue in Word. Thanks again for the reply.

[Stefan Blom]

I guess you weren't able to find a printer driver then? Sometimes, you could try an older driver; with some printers, using one supplied with Windows might improve the situation (but you may not get all the features of an up-to-date driver).

[rluna68]

Ultimately this doc was going to a third party - we would have had to know the printer each viewer. We ended up sending a PDF along with the Word doc. Thanks again,