Word 2000: pages are moving up, 1 line at a time,why?

[cgkeller]

Over the years, I compiled a "computer dictionary", 119 pages, 680 KB. I arrange the pagination so that all the pages are on top of the page,A-1, A-2, B-1, B-2, B-3, C-1, C-2, C-3,etc..,
I save the file as "archive", not "read only" and three days
later, at page A-6, the top line of A-6 has been moved over to the bottom of page A-5. By M-5, the start of M-5 is already at the middle of M-4...

What could be done to prevent that?

I know that the width of the margins (left, right, top and bottom), as well as the size of the fonts can influence the page length, but why does it move, once it is saved?

I am a retired fellow in Kelowna, Canada, and if you send me your e-mail address, I gladly send you that file for your perusing, in case you might be able to help.

Charles, Kelowna.

 

[tf1]

Do you happen to have more than one printer or even a printer/fax driver? The reason I ask is that changing printer drivers will change the pagination. In Word, pages do not exist: it is the parameters that Word extracts from the active printer driver that lets the Print Layout and Print Preview make pages for sending to the printer. If you change the active printer driver, you change all these parameters.

See this FAQ for more details:

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TextReflow.htm

Regards: tf1

 

[cgkeller]

Memo to tf1:

Thank you for your valuable input. You are right, I have two printers (HP & Epson) on my networked printers. And now, I noticed another thing: WORD doesn't like if you make the top and bottom less than 1", it also tend to screwing up the pagination.

Now, I put my top and bottom margins at 1", I convert my
Word file to PDF using "DeskPDF" (which works very well), and voilà: my pagination stays where it should !!

Thanks again: ...Charles.