Saving as PDF destroys formatting in Word (Round 2)

[bodhiw]

All my efforts in formatting my resume, or school work are wasted because whenever I try to save my documents as a PDF, the formatting appears different and destroyed. There are so many inconsistencies between my documents and how others view it on their computer screens. I use Microsoft's 365 subscription.

I saw my resume from my bosses computer... It looks horrible. When my school work was graded and returned to me... teachers notes indicated messy formatting and a lack of effort despite the content. This problem ruining my goals as a writer, and as a good student.

The article I linked below is about the same issue from 2018 posted by other frustrated individuals. Microsoft told me to speak to an expert through this page by posting my problem as a discussion after support was unable to assist me.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/saving-as-pdf-destroys-formatting-in-word/238...

[#2]

Can you upload a copy of the Word document and the PDF document so that we can see the issue and perhaps provide you with a way to avoid the problem.

[#3]

Sure, do you know how I can upload documents to this post?

[#4]

@bodhiw If you click on the Open full text editor link

You will then see the following screen that has facilities for dragging and dropping or browsing for a file that you want to attach. 

[#5]

@Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP 

It happens to everyone and it sucks. I waste so much printer paper because of this. The last few lines drop off onto the next page, but because I've used a page break, it's an extra page with hardly anything on it. I usually have to reduce the page margins to get the result I see on the screen.

It would be nice if Microsoft would do something about this. After all, Libre Office, Adobe InDesign and other page formatting tools create PDFs that match what's on the screen.

Some related issues include when you can't type on the last few lines of a page, so you end up with a blank gap at the bottom of the page because any content typed there jumps to the next page. Page breaks may be the culprit when you can't seem to type anything on a page. 

Anyway, we need a WYSIWYG feature for printing from Office 365, so the weird page breaks don't show up when the PDF is created for printing.

[#6]

@Data_Doctor It most certainly does NOT happen to everybody.

If you upload a copy of a document so that we can see it, we may be able to determine what is causing your frustration.

[#7]

that helped me