Formatting changes when documents are emailed

I sometimes send Word documents to a friend.  He uses Word 2003, I have 
2000.  The documents are relatively straightforward, using a single style 
and an uncomplicated layout, with only two sections, the second of which has 
different margin and tab settings to the first, and also page numbering.

If my friend prints a document directly from the email attachment, my 
formatting is reproduced exactly.  If, though, he saves the attached file to 
his hard drive and then prints it from there, the formatting goes awry. 
Specifically, the section break is ignored and the section two layout, 
complete with numbers, is applied to whole document.

Is there anything that can be done to prevent this?

Many thanks.

Bert

Are you saying that this happens with *all* documents that you send to your 
friend?

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Yes, indeed.  But it could be significant that the documents all use the 
same basic formatting.

I've tried emailing them to myself as attachments, then going through the 
process of saving the attachment and printing from the saved version.  It 
works perfectly for me: no changes whatsoever.

Bert 

All of the (apparent) changes you're seeing *could* be attributable to a 
different printer driver (especially if you've used a font your friend 
doesn't have installed); see 
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Thanks for that; the font throughout is Courier New, 12pt, so I doubt if 
that's the problem.  A few more experiments today have suggested that it 
might be the section break (there's only one in each document) which isn't 
being recognised at the far end.  Is that a known problem?

Bert 

If a section break at the end is the issue, then it could be that the 
document is becoming broken in transmission. Have you tried zipping it 
before sending? You might also want to remove the section break, leaving the 
formatting of the last section in the final paragraph mark; this is fairly 
easily done (see the last portion of 
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

I haven't, and I'm not sure that it's practical, but I'll look into it, 
thanks for the suggestion.


The more I read articles like that, the more I realise that I really don't 
understand this software at all.

Bert