Microsoft Word does not print.

Question

Microsoft Word will not print anything. I have already tried reinstalling my drivers and even reinstalling Office but Word will not print. This occurs with any document I open and it will not even print to "virtual" printers such as XPS writer and Print to PDF. It just acts like it prints but when I open the folder I saved the file to the file is not there.

Other software on my computer such as Chrome will print just fine, both using "virtual" and physical printers.

Answer 1

Other office applications fail to print as well but they produce an error message. It can not be lack or memory as I don't see 64GB of RAM being completly eaten up by anything other than purposefully trying to on Minecraft, This is a virtual printer (Print to PDF) Im testing on so I dont see a bad connection being the cause.

Answer 2

Can you print from other Office applications such as Excel?

Have you visited the printer manufacturer's website to see if they have an updated driver for use with Windows 10. 

Try downloading and installing the free PrimoPDF utility that will appear as a printer on your system and see if it will print from Word.

Answer 3

Hello Kira,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

A quick question, does this issue occurs only in Word among other Office application?

Refer the following thread and the article which discusses about the printing problems in Word and see if it helps.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/officeversion_other-word/printer-will-not-print-from-word/55cad64f-f9e5-4b70-a6a8-70e4d1e2a65e

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/826845

Also, try repairing Office suite and see if it helps.

https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Repair-an-Office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b

Hope this information helps. If you have any queries, do let us know.

Thank you.