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Printing a range of pages in a multi-section document stopped working
As reported in the Microsoft Community (see for example https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-word-m365-specific-pagecustom-range/560ee184-32a7-4e2b-bab8-1f7b480bd15a), Microsoft has recognized this issue as a bug and it is being investigated.
Hi
I'm writing a novel and thus I need to print off page ranges to give to agents and publishers. Can you tell me roughly when this page range bug will be sorted? Thankyou Stefan_Blom
- Simon_ConvyOct 07, 2021Copper Contributor
Hi John Paul,
This may help in the interim. I found that the problem occurs for me when I have page numbering in the form 'page x of y'. I get around the problem by having just 'page x'.
Good luck with your novel.
Simon
In more detail, here is how to trigger the problem and how to get around it (but not how to fix it) .
Step 1.
From scratch, create a simple document in Word. For example, the text ‘page One’, a page break, and the text ‘Page Two’.
Insert, Page Number, Bottom of Page, Page X of Y (Bold Numbers 1).
Save the document.
Step 2.
Attempt to print.
Select to print just page 1.
It will not. Nor page 2.
Step 3.
Edit the footer.
Remove page number.
Add page number.
This time, just the plain number. (That is ‘page x’, not ‘page x of y’.)
Save the document.
Step 4.
Attempt to print.
Select to print just page 1.
It prints.
And also for just page 2.- johnpaulOct 07, 2021Copper Contributorthanks
- Stefan_BlomSep 19, 2021MVP
- johnpaulSep 19, 2021Copper Contributor
Thanks Stefan_Blom . I guess selecting a page range than printing is OK but it is annoying that Microsoft charges for something that was written in 1983 and which still has bugs in it.
Word should be free by now.
- Stefan_BlomSep 19, 2021MVP
Bugs occur all the time in commercial as well as open source software. 🙂
Apparently, this printing bug turned out to be especially tricky.