This has just started happening on Word documents that I have been using for (seemingly) ever.
All have been created/recently read on MS Office 2016 and some have been recently read on MS Office 365.
I cannot print selected pages, e.g. 80-81 or 88-91 - Word takes the request and just ignores it.
I CAN print whole documents or current page.
I have repaired Office 2016 (Quick and Full) and retried but to no avail.
I DO NOT have the problem on MS Excel (2016 or O365) - specified pages print as requested.
Investigations on the internet reveal that this is not an unknown problem but, so far I have not discovered a reason or resolution for this sudden manifestation ā¦
Has anyone had the same experience and resolved it ā¦ :?:
It turns out that there is a bug in Word in Version 2012 (Build 13530.20316)* of Microsoft Office that the Product Team are investigating.
Iāve found that the issue seems to be that in a document with a section break the first section is now āS0ā, and the second section is āS2ā - the result of this is that printing page ranges has been broken thoroughly.
That is the O365 version of Word that I have installed.
I donāt use MS Word any more. Since retiring Iāve only ever used Open Office Writer, which does more or less exactly what MS Word does only better IMHO and itās free.
I spent an interesting hour with the charming āNathalie Nicoleā who established a remote session with me and put my PC through itsā paces - she found, as I had, that Word documents wonāt print specific pages so she will forward my case to the investigators ā¦
With me, it seemed that documents written using Word2007 and new documents created with Word365 printed selected pages ok but anything written in between didnāt ā¦ and thatās most of my stuff ā¦ :shock:
For me the problem was due to section breaks in my document.
I had to specify my print range with the following format
pXsY where Y is the section number and X is the page number with in that section ex. p4s7 is the fourth page in section 7 of the document. according to the dialog box this can be done with specific page numbers as well as page ranges ie. p2s4, p3s4, p4s4 or p2s4 - p4s4.
It does seem to be the approved method for documents with section breaks but Iāve never had to use it before:
How to Print a Range of Pages in a Multi-Section Word Document
I have just heard from Doug Robbins, MVP Office Apps & Services (Word).
I have received advice that the issue has been fixed in Office builds 16.0.13420.20000 and above and Mac builds 16.43.20102000 and above. If you are still experiencing the issue, restarting your Office apps should do the trick.
I have tried Office but couldnāt get on with it. It wouldnāt open previous stuff that I had saved on discs and is apparently up in space now or something, on a rain cloud somewhere. Sadly I remember the days when Office came free with the computer and pre installed. Those were the days eh?
FreeOffice is a complete Office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet application and a presentation program ā all compatible with their counterparts in Microsoft Office.
Whatās the catch? There is none. Simply download it for free and use it for as long as you want. Millions of people use it every day and enjoy this great free Office suite.
Only loosely related to this encountered problem, but when I bought this new laptop I gave the old one to a friend who didnāt have one. However, I had first removed everything using Windowsā own facility for doing so, including Word of course.
As I was going through setting it up anew with her she said that sheās have to buy an Office 365 suite. As I understand it, you have to ārentā this (Ā£60 a year!), so I told her, āOh no you donātā, and showed her how to download LibreOffice, which is completely free.
Their version of Word does everything that MS Word does.
In my personal and not inconsiderable experience Microsoft software of all types has always been buggy.
Very buggy.
Thatās why their stuff has always needed such a lot of updates and security fixes.
Corelās Wordperfect and even IBMās Lotus Smartsuite were much better, but MSās marketing and their integration with their OSes effectively killed off continued development of the decent competition.
There was nothing lacking - all the free ones are inclusive but there is usually something about the style, layout, response, etc, which āgratesā on me ā¦
ā¦ but Iām sure thatās been discussed elsewhere - this thread is just about a specific error with MS Word.
