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Hi, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of text in each cell. The text
looks fine on the screen but when it prints, some words have too much spacing between the letters. For instance, on screen a cell that has a sentence with the following text: We have sold five apples. Would look like this when printed out: We hav e sold five app les. I have seen this before and always assumed it was just what happened when Excel had a lot of text and the page set up was set to scale to less than 100%. Someone here at work said there is a way to format the worksheet or the text or something so it doesn't do that but they can't remember how. Does anyone know what setting or option might help with this problem? Thanks in advance for any information. |
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I've never noticed this problem.
But I'd try a few different things. A different printer A different printer driver (download a new version from the web site) A different font FJ wrote: Hi, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of text in each cell. The text looks fine on the screen but when it prints, some words have too much spacing between the letters. For instance, on screen a cell that has a sentence with the following text: We have sold five apples. Would look like this when printed out: We hav e sold five app les. I have seen this before and always assumed it was just what happened when Excel had a lot of text and the page set up was set to scale to less than 100%. Someone here at work said there is a way to format the worksheet or the text or something so it doesn't do that but they can't remember how. Does anyone know what setting or option might help with this problem? Thanks in advance for any information. -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi, Dave, thanks for your response. I've actually seen this problem quite a
few times before. Sometimes instead of spaces some of the letters seem to be squashed together. It's hard to explain without looking at the printout. Anyway, your suggestion was correct. We did some experimenting here with different printers that we have available and it turns out that it only happens with one particular kind of printer, at least so far. I guess the tech support people will look into the printer driver issue. Thanks again! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I've never noticed this problem. But I'd try a few different things. A different printer A different printer driver (download a new version from the web site) A different font FJ wrote: Hi, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of text in each cell. The text looks fine on the screen but when it prints, some words have too much spacing between the letters. For instance, on screen a cell that has a sentence with the following text: We have sold five apples. Would look like this when printed out: We hav e sold five app les. I have seen this before and always assumed it was just what happened when Excel had a lot of text and the page set up was set to scale to less than 100%. Someone here at work said there is a way to format the worksheet or the text or something so it doesn't do that but they can't remember how. Does anyone know what setting or option might help with this problem? Thanks in advance for any information. -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks for posting back.
If you have time, could you post the printer make and model and if the newer printer driver worked? Then google will have it for the next victim. FJ wrote: Hi, Dave, thanks for your response. I've actually seen this problem quite a few times before. Sometimes instead of spaces some of the letters seem to be squashed together. It's hard to explain without looking at the printout. Anyway, your suggestion was correct. We did some experimenting here with different printers that we have available and it turns out that it only happens with one particular kind of printer, at least so far. I guess the tech support people will look into the printer driver issue. Thanks again! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I've never noticed this problem. But I'd try a few different things. A different printer A different printer driver (download a new version from the web site) A different font FJ wrote: Hi, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of text in each cell. The text looks fine on the screen but when it prints, some words have too much spacing between the letters. For instance, on screen a cell that has a sentence with the following text: We have sold five apples. Would look like this when printed out: We hav e sold five app les. I have seen this before and always assumed it was just what happened when Excel had a lot of text and the page set up was set to scale to less than 100%. Someone here at work said there is a way to format the worksheet or the text or something so it doesn't do that but they can't remember how. Does anyone know what setting or option might help with this problem? Thanks in advance for any information. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi, actually we've made a new discovery with this. As it turns out there's
another printer that also sometimes prints the weird character spacing, although this second printer doesn't do it all the time. It seems to depend on which computer you use to print the file from. Because of this we think it is probably a printer driver issue. But anyway, here is the information about the printers, just in case anyone is interested: Lexmark T622 Lexmark T634 I'll try to post if we find anything out about the printer drivers. It would really be great to finally get to the bottom of this problem. "Dave Peterson" wrote: Thanks for posting back. If you have time, could you post the printer make and model and if the newer printer driver worked? Then google will have it for the next victim. FJ wrote: Hi, Dave, thanks for your response. I've actually seen this problem quite a few times before. Sometimes instead of spaces some of the letters seem to be squashed together. It's hard to explain without looking at the printout. Anyway, your suggestion was correct. We did some experimenting here with different printers that we have available and it turns out that it only happens with one particular kind of printer, at least so far. I guess the tech support people will look into the printer driver issue. Thanks again! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I've never noticed this problem. But I'd try a few different things. A different printer A different printer driver (download a new version from the web site) A different font FJ wrote: Hi, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of text in each cell. The text looks fine on the screen but when it prints, some words have too much spacing between the letters. For instance, on screen a cell that has a sentence with the following text: We have sold five apples. Would look like this when printed out: We hav e sold five app les. I have seen this before and always assumed it was just what happened when Excel had a lot of text and the page set up was set to scale to less than 100%. Someone here at work said there is a way to format the worksheet or the text or something so it doesn't do that but they can't remember how. Does anyone know what setting or option might help with this problem? Thanks in advance for any information. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks for posting the info.
FJ wrote: Hi, actually we've made a new discovery with this. As it turns out there's another printer that also sometimes prints the weird character spacing, although this second printer doesn't do it all the time. It seems to depend on which computer you use to print the file from. Because of this we think it is probably a printer driver issue. But anyway, here is the information about the printers, just in case anyone is interested: Lexmark T622 Lexmark T634 I'll try to post if we find anything out about the printer drivers. It would really be great to finally get to the bottom of this problem. "Dave Peterson" wrote: Thanks for posting back. If you have time, could you post the printer make and model and if the newer printer driver worked? Then google will have it for the next victim. FJ wrote: Hi, Dave, thanks for your response. I've actually seen this problem quite a few times before. Sometimes instead of spaces some of the letters seem to be squashed together. It's hard to explain without looking at the printout. Anyway, your suggestion was correct. We did some experimenting here with different printers that we have available and it turns out that it only happens with one particular kind of printer, at least so far. I guess the tech support people will look into the printer driver issue. Thanks again! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I've never noticed this problem. But I'd try a few different things. A different printer A different printer driver (download a new version from the web site) A different font FJ wrote: Hi, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of text in each cell. The text looks fine on the screen but when it prints, some words have too much spacing between the letters. For instance, on screen a cell that has a sentence with the following text: We have sold five apples. Would look like this when printed out: We hav e sold five app les. I have seen this before and always assumed it was just what happened when Excel had a lot of text and the page set up was set to scale to less than 100%. Someone here at work said there is a way to format the worksheet or the text or something so it doesn't do that but they can't remember how. Does anyone know what setting or option might help with this problem? Thanks in advance for any information. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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