Blank areas in Word document PDF's

We create a document in MS Word 2010. Looks fine, prints fine. Use the print to Adobe option in Word. That seems to go fine. Document pulled up in Acrobat XI, looks fine. Print from Acrobat, we get blank areas in various areas across all pages. Not consistent. The blank areas are roughly mailing label sized, but do vary, and occur at random places throughout the document. Happens on a couple of different documents, and on multiple printers. The blank areas are consistent on different printers.
If, alternatively, we retrieve the same MS Word document from within Acrobat, the problem doesn't occur.
What's up with this?

Yes, running 11.0.01. Turns out this is a conversion from Word to Adobe issue. On the print page there is the choice to print only the document, or the document and pop-ups, etc. By default Acrobat was printing the document and pop-ups, etc. even though there weren't any pop-ups that we had created. When we set the printing to be only the document, it printed correctly. Obviously the blank areas are brought over during the Print to Adobe process in MS Word, and they're positioned all over the document, but we have no idea where where they are coming from as we didn't knowingly add anything like that to the original document. And it also does not explain why it happens when you Print to Adobe from within Word, but it does not occur when retrieving a Word document from within Acrobat.

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