Word 2004 11.3 refuses to print out a range of pages in a document.

[justinbyoung]

Despite setting a print range Word 2004 insists on printing the entire
document. Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Word uses the "Adjusted page number" to define the range. If the page
numbers have been reset so that your ending page number is not actually
within the document, it will print the whole thing.

What page range specification are you making? (I.e. what are you typing
into the range box?)

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[justinbyoung]

We are trying to print Pages 1 -20 of a 100 page document. So we are
entering 1 into the From: box and 20 into the to: box.

Thanks

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hmmm... Have you got "From" and To" fields in Word? I've only got a single
"Pages" box. That's why I asked

OK, I have seen section break corruption mangle the "Page" field so that
Word can't read it properly. If you display the document in Print Layout
view, then slowly drag the slider down the document, you should get a little
yellow ballon showing the page number. The sequence of page numbers should
move smoothly from 1 to 100. If they skip and jump, you may have one or
more corrupt section breaks in there.

The other thing that may happen is where you restart the page numbering at
each section. If you had ten sections in that document, each with page
numbers 1 to 10, then tried to print pages 1 - 20, you would print the
entire content of each section.

You may have to use a range specification that includes the section number,
such as p1s1-p8s3. Are you numbering the pages by chapter? If you are, you
need to specify both page and section numbers.

Cheers

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[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Bob:

I don't think it varies by printer driver, but it does vary by platform. I
am still suffering Mac withdrawals, so I can't look it up.

Cheers

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[justinbyoung]

Thanks for the replies. I will check the document today.