The print spooler chokes on both of my Windows 10 machines when trying to deal with certain pdf files. For instance when I tried to print via my browser (Chrome), it printed the first 6 pages, but the printer showed an error when it came to the seventh page. When I then tried to create another job just to print the seventh page, it just hung around in the print spool and nothing happened at the printer. I tried this several times on two machines.
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It was also impossible either to cancel the job in the print queue manager or to stop the spooler in the services manager in order to manually clear the print queue, which meant that the only way I could clear the queue was to restart the machine. I got the same behaviour whether I was printing to my physical printer or to the MS pdf printer. I also got the same behaviour when I tried to print from a different browser (Edge). This is not the first time I have had a problem with an unprintable file like this in Windows 10. Is there a solution?
When you’re under the gun with a brief or something else that’s due ASAP, the last thing you need is Microsoft Word creating some formatting snafu that defies logic. Particularly if you’re a, you need to fix that formatting fast and get back to the business of. Here are some quick tricks to try. Unless otherwise noted below, all instructions and screenshots are for Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows. Diagnostics The first step in solving any problem is diagnosing it. The most useful tools Microsoft Word has for figuring out what’s going on with your text are the Status Bar, Show/Hide, and Reveal Formatting.
Pimp Out Your Status Bar The (that long gray bar across the bottom of your Microsoft Word window) can give you a lot more diagnostic information than most users realize. To maximize its usefulness, right-click anywhere along the blank spaces of the gray bar to get this contextual menu: I always suggest checking as many options as possible. For example, knowing that you’re in Section 3 of your document can help with diagnosing problems with headers and footers, particularly when you’ve imported text from WordPerfect (which can be very sneaky about embedding unwanted section breaks). Turn On Your Codes To me, it’s always useful to be able to see visual representations of things like hard paragraph breaks and tabs. Fortunately, this is easily done. Just click the paragraph symbol (called Show/Hide) in the Paragraph section of the Home tab in versions 2007 or 2010 (or if you’re in version 2003 or earlier, click the Show/Hide button in the Standard toolbar).
Show/Hide is particularly useful for diagnosing spacing or justification problems. If you find all those codes distracting, leave it on just long enough to diagnose your problem and turn it off when you’re finished. Reveal Formatting, a.k.a. Word’s Reveal Codes Replacement You can get a lot more information, though, from Microsoft Word’s feature. Just click SHIFT-F1, and the Reveal Formatting pane will appear on the right-hand side. Wherever you place your cursor, Reveal Formatting will not only show you how that text is formatted, it will give you hyperlinks to take you straight to the correct menu to fix it.
And if you want to know why one paragraph doesn’t look like another, simply place your cursor in the first paragraph, check the “Compare to another selection” check box, then click your cursor into the paragraph you want to compare to. Reveal Formatting will show you the differences. Fixing What’s Wrong If using any of the above tools doesn’t make it obvious how to fix something, or you’re just in that much of a hurry, you’re not stuck. There are a couple of different ways to simply force your formatting to behave.
Format Painter If you see some other text in the document that looks like what you wish your misbehaving text looked like, the fastest way to make it conform is to use the Format Painter. Go to the Home tab (or, in versions 2003 or earlier, go to the Standard toolbar), place your cursor inside the text you want your misbehaving paragraph to emulate, click the paintbrush icon, then click or select the text you want to fix. If you want to fix several pieces of text without having to repeat this entire sequence, double-click the paintbrush icon to make it persistent (in other words, to allow you to repeat the “fix” step several times), then click the paintbrush icon again when you’re finished. Fast Fixes: CTRL+SPACE/CTRL+Q/CTRL+SHIFT+N Frankly, there are days when you don’t care why your formatting’s wrong, you just want it fixed.
For those moments, let me suggest these three: CTRL+SPACE – This removes all character-level formatting—funky fonts, underlining, boldface, italics, etc. Just select the text you want to fix and hit this key combination (hold down your Control key and press the space bar). CTRL+Q – This removes all paragraph-level formatting—weird indents, line spacing, extra spacing before and after the paragraphs, etc.
Again, select the text, hold down your Control key and press the letter Q. CTRL+SHIFT+N – This returns the selected text to Normal formatting (however Normal is defined in that particular document’s Styles). You’ll need a bit more manual dexterity here: select your text, then hold down the Control and Shift keys together and press the letter N. Any of these shortcut key combinations will return the text to something you can work with without you having to wander through the menus looking for a fix. And when you’re in a hurry, isn’t that what you really want? Featured image: “” from Shutterstock.
All of this begs the question: the reason this article is even necessary is because Word has major formatting problems that defy logic at times and drive you out of your mind. I’ve have been using Word Perfect for 25 years. Word Perfect lets you fix formatting problems easily. Ask someone who uses Word Perfect about “reveal codes,” which is what method of disclosing the formatting codes hidden in the document is called. On the rare occasion when the formatting has gone awry, a simple push on F3 lets you see all the hidden codes instantly. You then can select and delete the errant formatting.
Word has no such ability Word Perfect works so much better than Word, it’s not even funny. I saw a comparison recently about Word Perfect and Word, and the person correctly noted that what happened with Word and Word Perfect was similar to what happened with VHS video and Betamax. The inferior, but better marketed product (VHS), ran the superior product (Betamax) out of business. That person closed his post with the comment, “you can have my Word Perfect when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.” Word Perfect users are a committed bunch. I cut my Word Processing teeth on WordPerfect.
I definitely did not know all the ins and outs of the product, but I thought reveal codes were really cool. Until I was Word indoctrinated and worked with it for a few years. When I then worked at a place that had both, I found Word’s formatting much easier to deal with. What you see in a paragraph or with specific text is what you get. There is no small code on page 136 of a 300 page document that is causing a problem on page 42. I am not here to say the Word is better than WordPerfect. I am just saying what I found, personally, to be better about Word than what WordPerfect had (like early 2000’s is the last time I had to work with WordPerfect documents in any depth).
Other useful Word settings I always have turned on via Word Options Advanced include:. in the Show document content section, set Field shading=Always to cause any field code content to be set with a light gray background so you know it is a field code result and not typed content (i.e. Table of contents, cross-references, page numbers, styleref content in header/footers, etc.). The shading is for the screen views only and won’t print. You can toggle between the field code and its result with Shift-F9 when you are within it, or Alt-F9 to toggle all field codes. in the same section, turn on “Show bookmarks” to have light gray and characters contain any defined bookmarks so you can see them. These also only show on screen views and won’t print.
in the Display section, include a value 0 in the “Style area pane width in Draft and Outline views” setting. I use 0.5″ so there is a half-inch area to show the style name for paragraphs in these views. Very useful for reviewing styles.
Oh, and about WP vs Word: IMHO, the battle was lost when the initial developers based Word’s formatting on objects instead of characters. This made it possible to use styles–which was how documents were being formatted in the printing industry–rather than be stuck with having to use inline codes–which came from the limited processing capability of early standalone word processors. Hi, I am a tech and for the life of me and my colleagues we CANNOT figure out why Word is doing this and have tried EVERY formatting trick in the book, HELP! Hello, I have some weird codes on the bottom of my Word 2008 MAC version document. For example, like this: 15 ———————- 15 The 15 is the page number. I have page numbers in the header not in the footer, so it is odd they appear there. It seems as if some of the page codes are getting jumbled with the footnotes.
I have tried the following: 1) Clicked the Paragraph symbol to hide formatting 2) Switched off the View Mark Up (from my editor) 3) Switched off the Reveal Formatting which is liked to the Paragraph button 4) CMD 6, CONTROL F9, CMD F9 – do nothing. Besides putting the document into PDF format and using the tool to remove the 18 unwanted codes that appear throughout my 240 page text or start fresh with a new file, I am at a loss of what to do. Any help or information would be much appreciated. From Deborah: My take would be (a) a caveat that I don’t have a Mac and can’t directly test a solution; (b) some of this depends on how King Kohn added the page number (did he do Insert Page Number, or did he go into the header and manually insert the PageNum field from Insert Quick Parts Field? I would recommend undoing the former and trying the latter, assuming that option is available in Mac); and (c) his “visual” doesn’t really tell me much.
He may be dealing with a corrupt file and might benefit from (see #2). I had an issue with Microsoft Word where every time I tried to switch back to normal style from bold it would automatically switch back to bold. I went to a number of Articles about how to change your default style but none helped. Eventually I found a simple solution; simply type random letters, highlight them, and press Ctrl + Space bar. This will switch the random letters back to normal style. You can then erase the random letters and when you start to type again, it will still be in normal style.
Hope this helped!