Well, if you'd used Google to search the microsoft.public.word.printingfonts
NG, you would have found *plenty* of posts. The general consensus until
recently was that this was caused by a conflict between Word 2002/2003 and
the HP drivers for certain LaserJets. Although there are other workarounds,
the one that seemed to work best for most users was to substitute one of the
drivers from http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/index.html. Recently, however, it
has been suggested that this may be yet another result of the "columns" bug.
Try selecting your whole document, going to Format | Columns, and clicking
on the One button (even if it appears to be already enabled), which checks
the "Equal column width" box. It's the failure of Word to check that box
that causes problems on several fronts.