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MS Word will not print custom pages

Anonymous
2021-12-30T14:55:16+00:00

I keep running into the problem of MS Word not printing custom pages. It doesn't matter if I say print pages "1-4" or print "1,2,3,4." It will still print the entire document, even though it clearly shows what custom pages I selected to be printed.

I did some research yesterday and saw that section breaks could affect printing, so I removed and reformatted the document without section breaks and still have the same problem. I use this same document format weekly and need for selections to be printed easily. How do I fix this? I didn't have this problem 2 months ago. Also note that it only seems to be one document format. I don't have problems with other documents.

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  1. Stefan Blom 338.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-01-04T15:29:51+00:00

    The document contains 11 sections. To print it correctly, you have to use the p1s1-p2s10 format, because the page number format of the fourth physical page is "page 2, section 10":

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    To remember the syntax, choose to display "Formatted page number" as well as "Section" number on the status bar in Word. To enable these options, right-click the status bar and click to select these options.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-12-30T15:17:25+00:00

    Thanks. I did some more playing around after my initial post and found that it's only the one document format that refuses to print custom pages. My other document formats print custom pages, so I don't think that it's the printer software. I think there must be some corruption in that document format.

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  3. Stefan Blom 338.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-01-04T19:58:24+00:00

    As Charles wrote, you can insert a Page number field. You'll need to access a footer (or header).

    The tricky part here is the number of sections in the document (each section has up to three footers and three headers). I take it you didn't intentionally create so many sections?

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  4. Charles Kenyon 166.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-12-31T04:15:27+00:00

    Thanks. I did some more playing around after my initial post and found that it's only the one document format that refuses to print custom pages. My other document formats print custom pages, so I don't think that it's the printer software. I think there must be some corruption in that document format.

    And that format is?

    Why a sample file is important for troubleshooting. How to do it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-12-30T15:07:42+00:00

    As a start reinstall the full feature software provided by your printer maker, and after which File>Print, and then check the printer options

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