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Double sided printing problem in Office 365
I have Office 365 and use Excel for most of my work. When have a file that has multiple pages, the settings for single sided printing / double sided printing are giving me grief. When I want to print multiple pages single sided, the printer keeps printing double sided (but not all of the sheets).
For example - if I set it to "Print Entire Workbook" and then select the option to "Print One Sided", the first few sheets of the workbook come out single sided and then the rest start coming out double sided.
In a different scenario, if I select multiple sheets, I'll select "Print Active Sheets" and then verify that it is set to "Print One Sided" however only the first active sheet comes out single sided -- the rest come out double sided.
I've verified in the printer device settings that the default is set to "None" under the double sided printing settings, is there somewhere else that I need to change this? I didn't have this issue with the previous version of Excel that I was using, this has only started happening since I started using 365 -- I end up wasting a lot of paper because I can't get it to stop printing double sided.
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chrisdon259 we are having the same issue. Have you found a solution?
kayla1540 unfortunately no. I've had to adjust how I do things and just print single sheets at a time if I want to make sure they're coming out single sided. (I've wasted a ton of paper trying to re-train myself to remember this!)
Same issue, her is what I did after some research:
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If you’re trying to print off an entire Excel workbook (all the tabs, or more than one tab) you’re likely to have trouble getting it to duplex print properly.
The reason for this is that Excel is inclined to treat each of those tabs as a separate document, each with its own printer settings (I know this is an oversimplification, but thinking of it this way makes the problem easier to understand).
The simple fix it is to go to each individual tab and adjust the print settings (IE: from each tab, go to File --> Print, and select duplex).
You can also do this from the “Print” settings page by scrolling through the print previewed document for the entire workbook, and adjusting the settings as you get to any given page from each tab."
