On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:38 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 10/07/2026 15:40, john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:03:31 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 09/07/2026 22:28, john larkin wrote:

It's insane. Page breaks are a nightmare now.

What version are you talking about?

We use Office at work, and it's constantly updating. So who knows?

You should still be able to make it tell you its version and patch
level. They hide it in different places on older versions.

It randomly shows one page at a time, or two-up.

What is wrong with those people?

I'm no fan of MS Word but it sounds like your config is corrupt.

Other people have noticed the same thing. It handles page breaks
different lately, and it makes no sense.

This is more likely to be a print metrics thing depending on which
printer the computer running Word is connected too. My main annoyance
there is that circles that are round on the screen are *not* round when >printed in Excel unless you use fixed width fonts.

It's not a printing thing. If you are at the end of the text on this
page and you do the insert/pagebreak thing, it's very weird.

I type xx on a new line, park above that, and add the page break. That
works.

That's new. But why?

Micosoft has an interesting business model, continuinually breaking
its products. I suspect they develop under Linux.

Their development tools and many developers are quite good.
It is the ship it and be damned management culture that is the problem.
After all with fast internet a few GB of "Updates" is barely noticeable.

It never does anything random for me, perverse and unhelpful yes but
random no - it is deterministic under all circumstances here.
(even if what you see is never quite what you get)

Certain layout depends critically on printer driver behaviour.

MS Office products are deterministic in their misbehaviour. Perhaps
wrong but deterministically wrong in the same environment.

I won't touch Office 365 with a barge pole - like building on shifting
sands with its infernal daily updates. YMMV

I prefer fixed dated versions and controlling when it updates them.

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