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Word document printing issue
I am unable to print certain pages in a long, highly formatted Word document while other pages print fine. I am not getting any error messages, just nothing showing up in the print queu. I tried to copy the content into a blank Word worksheet but it doesn't fix the issue. I've spoken to both Level 1 and Level 2 technicians at MS and the best suggestions they can offer is to paste the entire document into a new file with basic text format and then reformat everything from scratch. In addition to being a very cumbersome workaround, there is no guarantee that the file won't print again after doing that. Plus, this "solution" doesn't address the underlying issue if/when this occurs again with a different file.
Anybody have similar issues and/or suggestions?
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If the document contains multiple sections, printing a range of pages requires a specific syntax. Page numbers must be combined with section numbers as follows:
p#s#-p#s#
For assistance with the syntax, you may want to display Section numbers as well as Formatted Page Numbers on the status bar in Word. To add those numbers to the status bar, right-click the status bar and select the corresponding options on the context menu.
See also https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/Formatting/PrintMultipleSections.htm .
