Pattern Fill for lines with Vista

Hello,

JoAnn, I hope you are there... I love Publisher (2007, well all of them),
though not so sure about Vista, and this problem also occurs with Word.

Anyway, if I want to print a shape that is filled, then, even with a plain
colour fill, I have to go into Pattern Effects and ensure both the foreground
and background colours are set to the colour that I want inside my printed
shape. Note that the screen display is OK. Annoying... but it works!

I also have to do the same procedure if I want to print a Line... funny
really, because I only want a Line... I don't even want it 'filled'...
Annoying... but it works!

My problem arises now in that I want to print a dotted/dashed line... BUT my
procedure cannot work in this case, so I have to use thin grey lines instead!

I did paste this problem and procedure under Vista ages and ages ago, but
nothing happened. Maybe some of my default settings somewhere are wrong... I
just don't know... Wouldn't know where to look either...

Please help me again...

Anne.

JoAnn
Thu May 08 08:29:45 CDT 2008

I don't have access to a Vista system right now so someone else may have to
jump in there for now. I can check it out later tho.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


"annieuk" <annieuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F840B549-0FE9-494A-89D0-0D1D6DF2986C@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> JoAnn, I hope you are there... I love Publisher (2007, well all of them),
> though not so sure about Vista, and this problem also occurs with Word.
>
> Anyway, if I want to print a shape that is filled, then, even with a plain
> colour fill, I have to go into Pattern Effects and ensure both the
> foreground
> and background colours are set to the colour that I want inside my printed
> shape. Note that the screen display is OK. Annoying... but it works!
>
> I also have to do the same procedure if I want to print a Line... funny
> really, because I only want a Line... I don't even want it 'filled'...
> Annoying... but it works!
>
> My problem arises now in that I want to print a dotted/dashed line... BUT
> my
> procedure cannot work in this case, so I have to use thin grey lines
> instead!
>
> I did paste this problem and procedure under Vista ages and ages ago, but
> nothing happened. Maybe some of my default settings somewhere are wrong...
> I
> just don't know... Wouldn't know where to look either...
>
> Please help me again...
>
> Anne.