Aaargh why won't it print the writing?

[zipadeedodah]

I am trying to print a document of mine from Microsoft Word. The document consists of 7 very similar pages, which have a background, a couple of pictures here and there, a couple of text boxes, and quite alot of normal text. Everything prnts perfectly apart from the normal text, which isn't in text boxes. It appears on screen fine, and I know it has nothing to do with ink cartridges. It worked fine a couple of weeks ago when I printed just one page to see what it would come out like. Any ideas at all what may be wrong??

[HWKE]

How did you insert the background?

[wideboy]

Try creating a new blank document then select all in your own document, copy and paste into the new document. See if that helps.

[HWKE]

Does it appear on print preview?

[TechGirl]

You could
email me the document and I'll take a look ?

[zipadeedodah]

Thanks very much for your replies yesterday. Out of desperation in the end I copied and pasted all the text into individual text boxes in a new document, as the text boxes seemed to be printing fine!

Am still puzzled as to why it's doing that though, as I'm sure it's happened to me before. HWKE - I manually created a background by just using a drawn out rectangle the size of the page. I made sure it was at the back, behind everything else. It appears fine on print preview.