WD97: Bullets Not Vertically Centered When Displaying or Printing Word Document Object (241586)

SYMPTOMS

When you insert a Word document object containing bullets into an Excel worksheet, a Word document, or a PowerPoint slide, the bullets may not be vertically centered with the line of text.

CAUSE

Some fonts have different display and print metrics. This is the case with some symbol fonts used to create bullets in Word. When Word creates the display part of an object, it renders a metafile based on the font's print metrics so that you get a satisfactory printout.

The display part of the bullet font may have different characteristics than the font of the text, such as the baseline for the font. This difference results in how the bullet is displayed and printed. Microsoft Word renders the Word document object based on the current active printer driver.

This problem is known to occur with the following printer drivers:

Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4Si version 3.8

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, do one of the following appropriate for your situation:

Double-click the Word document object. If the object is in an application other than Microsoft Word (for example, Microsoft Excel), click back into the document sheet to regenerate the display image. If the object is in a Word document, click Close & Return to <filename>.

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Set your current printer driver to a different printer.