How to maintain settings between two different printers? "MaryL" <stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> 11/22/2008 3:27:55 PM I'm not sure if this is really a question for a Word group. If not, can someone please direct me to the correct newsgroup? I am preparing our church newsletters. I have Word 2007, but newsletters are saved to Word 97-2003 because the church has Word 2003. I prepare the newsletter at home and e-mail it to the church office. The problem is that if I select a font at home (for example, for headings), the printer at the church often does not have that font. Therefore, columns and pages may break at strange or inappropriate points. I can use plain-vanilla Times New Roman for everything, but I would like to be able to select other fonts. Is there any way in Word for the church secretary to print out a document with samples of all fonts available on her printer? That way, I could select fonts that I know will not be "changed" by the church printer. Incidentally, I went online to see if I could possibly install her printer on my computer. I'm not sure if that would have worked, but I could not even find a reference to the model number she gave me. Thanks, MaryL

Re: How to maintain settings between two different printers? "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> 11/22/2008 4:16:57 PM This may be two different problems, but I doubt it is the printer, unless the printer has been incorrectly set up to use its printer resident fonts instead of the TrueType fonts. As I say, that scenario is unlikely. More likely is that you are using fonts that came with Word 2007 which are different from previous fonts supplied with Office. You should be able to resolve most of these problems by downloading and installing the free Office 2007 Compatibility pack for Office 2000 - 2003. Then the church PC will not only be able to open your Word 2007 documents, but it will have all the new Office 2007 fonts too as they are part of the Compatibility pack. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "MaryL" <stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote in message news:uQmdmbLTJHA.5192[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > I'm not sure if this is really a question for a Word group. If not, can > someone please direct me to the correct newsgroup? > > I am preparing our church newsletters. I have Word 2007, but newsletters > are saved to Word 97-2003 because the church has Word 2003. I prepare the > newsletter at home and e-mail it to the church office. The problem is > that if I select a font at home (for example, for headings), the printer > at the church often does not have that font. Therefore, columns and pages > may break at strange or inappropriate points. I can use plain-vanilla > Times New Roman for everything, but I would like to be able to select > other fonts. Is there any way in Word for the church secretary to print > out a document with samples of all fonts available on her printer? That > way, I could select fonts that I know will not be "changed" by the church > printer. Incidentally, I went online to see if I could possibly install > her printer on my computer. I'm not sure if that would have worked, but I > could not even find a reference to the model number she gave me. > > Thanks, > MaryL >

Re: How to maintain settings between two different printers? Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 11/22/2008 4:24:59 PM Since you have Word 2007, you can use Office button > Save As > PDF to create a PDF file that faithfully reproduces what you've prepared. Send that to the church secretary, who needs only the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to print it. Any other solution is going to be much more difficult. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:27:55 -0600, "MaryL" <stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I'm not sure if this is really a question for a Word group. If not, can >someone please direct me to the correct newsgroup? > >I am preparing our church newsletters. I have Word 2007, but newsletters >are saved to Word 97-2003 because the church has Word 2003. I prepare the >newsletter at home and e-mail it to the church office. The problem is that >if I select a font at home (for example, for headings), the printer at the >church often does not have that font. Therefore, columns and pages may >break at strange or inappropriate points. I can use plain-vanilla Times New >Roman for everything, but I would like to be able to select other fonts. Is >there any way in Word for the church secretary to print out a document with >samples of all fonts available on her printer? That way, I could select >fonts that I know will not be "changed" by the church printer. >Incidentally, I went online to see if I could possibly install her printer >on my computer. I'm not sure if that would have worked, but I could not >even find a reference to the model number she gave me. > >Thanks, >MaryL

Re: How to maintain settings between two different printers? "MaryL" <stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> 11/22/2008 5:21:22 PM I don't think PDF would work because the secretary occasionally needs to add a "last minute" item. Those changes did not create the problem, but she would need to be able to edit the document. In addition, she uses the previous newsletter to show Activities for the next newsletter, then sends that to me. So, she needs to be able to edit and not merely print the document. I will look into Terry's suggestion and see if I can work with that (and any other suggestions you may have). Thanks, MaryL "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> wrote in message news:pccgi4dbfdnb8k59tlg01bo82nhbq621no[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > Since you have Word 2007, you can use Office button > Save As > PDF to > create a > PDF file that faithfully reproduces what you've prepared. Send that to the > church secretary, who needs only the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able > to > print it. > > Any other solution is going to be much more difficult. > > -- > Regards, > Jay Freedman > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup > so all > may benefit. > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:27:55 -0600, "MaryL" > <stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote: > >>I'm not sure if this is really a question for a Word group. If not, can >>someone please direct me to the correct newsgroup? >> >>I am preparing our church newsletters. I have Word 2007, but newsletters >>are saved to Word 97-2003 because the church has Word 2003. I prepare the >>newsletter at home and e-mail it to the church office. The problem is >>that >>if I select a font at home (for example, for headings), the printer at the >>church often does not have that font. Therefore, columns and pages may >>break at strange or inappropriate points. I can use plain-vanilla Times >>New >>Roman for everything, but I would like to be able to select other fonts. >>Is >>there any way in Word for the church secretary to print out a document >>with >>samples of all fonts available on her printer? That way, I could select >>fonts that I know will not be "changed" by the church printer. >>Incidentally, I went online to see if I could possibly install her printer >>on my computer. I'm not sure if that would have worked, but I could not >>even find a reference to the model number she gave me. >> >>Thanks, >>MaryL