Printing to a File Repeatedly Prompts for Filename

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.0

SUMMARY

With Windows 3.0, if you print a Microsoft Word for Windows version 2.0 document containing mixed portrait and landscape orientations to a file, Word prompts you for a new filename each time the orientation changes throughout the document. If you print the same document with Windows 3.1, Word will prompt you for only one filename.

MORE INFORMATION

With Windows 3.0, when you print to a printer, each change of orientation is sent to the printer as a separate print request. The same behavior occurs if you print to a file; however, Word for Windows prompts you for a filename for each change of orientation throughout the document. For example, if you have a document that changes orientation five times, when you print that document to a file, Word prompts you to enter a filename five times.

Make sure that you enter different filenames each time you are prompted. If you enter the same filename each time, Word for Windows overwrites the previous file, and only the last portion of your document is saved.

With Windows 3.1, the entire document is sent as one print request. If you print to a file, Word will prompt you once for an output filename, regardless of the number of different orientations in the document.