It appears to be the "smart" tags feature in Office XP (clearly a misnomer).
If I go and remove a date-related tag, half the text and all the graphics are
lost from the printed page. That's it - no other action - just remove that
single tag, and my print is even more wrecked than before.

What now? how can I get rid of these things? This is driving me mad. I have
probably destroyed half a forest printing pages with missing content.

There must be an MVP or someone out there who can get a workaround for this.

Help, PLEASE.

"PatD" wrote:

> I guess that's a "no" then.
>
> "PatD" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did that - more than once - but still a very unhappy printer. I followed the
> > instructions closely. Tried both loading latest drivers locally and
> > downloading from the other machine during adding printer. Different results
> > in each case, but didn't work properly in either case.
> >
> > ARGH!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Any other ideas please?
> >
> > "Byte" wrote:
> >
> > > Printer prints part of a page
> > > http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article%20One.htm
> > > --
> > > XP - WNP
> > > Today is the first day of the
> > > rest of your life.
> > >
> > >
> > > "PatD" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a peer network at home. Laptop and desktop machines both running XP
> > > > pro and office XP. The desktop machine has a Canon Pixma iP4000 printer
> > > > attached by USB, and offers out a share on the network. This has worked fine
> > > > for a while, but recently, some parts of documents printed on the laptop are
> > > > missing from the printed page. If I print these same documents from the
> > > > desktop system, they come out perfectly. I have reloaded windows and office
> > > > on the laptop, but no joy. Both machines have all the latest updates applied
> > > > for both windows and office. I have also deleted the printer from the laptop
> > > > and added it again, so the driver from the desktop machine is downloaded
> > > > afresh onto the laptop.
> > > >
> > > > It's not always the same parts of the documents that go missing.
> > > >
> > > > This problem is affecting spreadsheets as well as word documents.