Printing Landscape Tabs In Publisher Produces Unwanted Output
  
PSS ID Number: Q117759
Article last modified on 03-10-1997
 
1.00 1.00a 2.00 2.00a
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Publisher versions 1.0, 1.0a, 2.0, and 2.0a
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SYMPTOMS
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When you are printing using tabs or tab leaders to an inkjet or dot-matrix
type printer in landscape mode from Microsoft Publisher, unwanted
characters such as brackets appear on the page in place of tabs, or tab
leaders intermittently disappear.
 
WORKAROUND
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1. Select the text frame that contains the misprinting tabs.
 
2. From the Edit menu, choose Cut. This moves the text to the Windows
   Clipboard.
 
3. From the Edit menu, choose Paste Special, and select Picture. Choose
   OK.
 
The new text should reappear and should print without issue. Note the
text will no longer be in a format that Publisher can edit, due to the
objects transformation to a bitmap picture. This workaround will only work
with a single text frame. If the text frame containing the tab leaders is
the second or greater in a linked chain, the paste special will result in a
blank graphic containing no text. To correct this, create a new frame, copy
and paste the text from the problem frame into it.  Then proceed with the
workaround using the new text frame.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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Due to a design limitation in Microsoft Publisher, printers that use a
moving or banding print-head experience this sort of print limitation.
 
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Publisher versions 1.x and
2.0 and 2.0a. We are researching this problem and will post new information
here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
 
Additional query words: 1.00 1.00a 2.00 2.00a mspub
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Keywords            : kbbuglist
Version             : 1.00 1.00a 2.00 2.00a
Platform            : WINDOWS
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Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.