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Another commercial product, in addtion to FinePrint, is ClickBook (shareware) at http://www.bluesquirrel.com/clickbook/%5B/url%5D and also look at the heavy duty and special purpose staplers reviewed at this site.

Another place for info is the mvps.org site at http://www.mvps.org/word/%5B/url%5D where you should use the Search facility for “booklets”. There are several good articles.

Consider all your stapling/binding options before you go too far down this road.

Good luck. ….J. Till

In the same place (Tools, Option, Print) make sure that “Draft” is not checked. Depending on the printer, this can cause non-graphic printing.
Are there graphics in the body of the document that ARE printing? In other words, is this just a header problem or maybe an over all graphics printing problem?

In the same place (Tools, Option, Print) make sure that “Draft” is not checked. Depending on the printer, this can cause non-graphic printing.
Are there graphics in the body of the document that ARE printing? In other words, is this just a header problem or maybe an over all graphics printing problem?

I recently posted with the same problem symptoms. The problem turned out to be with the screensaver. Did the technician change your screensaver, maybe to test the graphics card? Are your problems occurring at the same time a screensaver might be kicking in? I know this is a shot in the dark, but after my experience, still worth a mention. Good Luck. ….. J. Till

I recently posted with the same problem symptoms. The problem turned out to be with the screensaver. Did the technician change your screensaver, maybe to test the graphics card? Are your problems occurring at the same time a screensaver might be kicking in? I know this is a shot in the dark, but after my experience, still worth a mention. Good Luck. ….. J. Till

Update. Cowboy , thanks for your kind offer of help, but I decided to go with a do-it-yourself approach: read previous posts, Google search, review other websites etc. And I learned a ton about WinXP and disabled a number of non-essential services. But I didn’t fix the low virtual memory problem, which, contrary to my earlier post, was not really fixed.
The problem was actually my screensaver, which was freeware that I had used without any trouble on Win98. Every time the screensaver kicked in (and it never appeared on my screen) the low virtual memory message came on and a lot of hard drive activity happened. The light (in my brain) didn’t come on until I was looking at my display options and realized I had chosen a screensaver but had never actually seen it work. Well it was trying to work, but was causing a problem. I don’t know if this screensaver was not WinXP compatible or had become corrupt as it was copied. But problem solved. And I learned some stuff too. ……J. Till

Update. Cowboy , thanks for your kind offer of help, but I decided to go with a do-it-yourself approach: read previous posts, Google search, review other websites etc. And I learned a ton about WinXP and disabled a number of non-essential services. But I didn’t fix the low virtual memory problem, which, contrary to my earlier post, was not really fixed.
The problem was actually my screensaver, which was freeware that I had used without any trouble on Win98. Every time the screensaver kicked in (and it never appeared on my screen) the low virtual memory message came on and a lot of hard drive activity happened. The light (in my brain) didn’t come on until I was looking at my display options and realized I had chosen a screensaver but had never actually seen it work. Well it was trying to work, but was causing a problem. I don’t know if this screensaver was not WinXP compatible or had become corrupt as it was copied. But problem solved. And I learned some stuff too. ……J. Till

You may want to review the thread that starts at post 92562

If your document is too complex, on a per page basis, for the printer, try lowering the printer resolution. (Settings…printers…right click your printer…properties…maybe graphics tab) Maybe you can print the problem pages at 300 dots per inch rather than 600 dpi.
Good luck. …J.Till

The News article at http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-995190.html%5B/url%5D says that the Office2003 Educational Version is available to students, teachers, and their families. There is a complete explanation.
It also implies that this may be Microsoft’s way of offering a discount to a large portion of the population, in response to competitive pressure, without having to admit that its overall price structure is changing. Very interesting.
…J.Till

The international keyboard option gives you, in all the Windows programs, many additional options for entering accented characters. The “unreliability” of the double-quote key is actually part of the options. The double-quote key (with the international keyboard option) is part of the process for entering a letter with an umlaut (dieresis) over it.

It is probably less complicated for you to switch back to the standard keyboard option and use the MS Word method for entering foreign letters. To enter the Spanish n with tilde: Ctrl plus tilde, then the letter n. In other words, hold the Ctrl key and the tilde , then hit the n key by itself. Of course you will need to use the Shift (to upper case) to get the tilde! So it’s actually: Hold the Ctrl key, hold the Shift key, and hit the tilde key, and then hit the n key by itself. (The tilde key is upper-case key on the left side of the keyboard.)

That’s what I do in Word97. …J.Till

When I am defragging I have to turn my screensaver off as it interrupts the defrag when it (the screensaver) kicks in. Could this be the problem? …J.Till

May I add TypeRodent, a free Word add-in (actually a template) which makes a document that prints font sample sheets. I know other programs do this, but I like this Word-centric approach. Info at http://www.tatumweb.com/typerat/%5B/url%5D

Big Al, thanks for keeping us in the loop with the link to software that probably does something. I’ll be adding several more such links shortly, so we can have a complete list. ….J. Till

Try the thread that starts with post 185868 particularly Andrew Lockton’s response