I am using MS Word 2007. I have a 250 page document comprised of sections. The page numbers flow sequentially; however, with various MS Word section breaks inserted, I often had to tell MS Word at which page number to start each section. For whatever the reason, MS Word is not recognizing a specific page number when I try to print. Other than printing page 1 as my selected page number, it is acting like the selected page number to print is not valid (i.e., out of range). Thus, nothing will print. Meanwhile, MS Word does have its own page count at the bottom of left of every MS Word document. One would expect MS Word to utilize this absolute page counter as its reference for page numbers for such matters as printing. In fact, I think older versions of MS Word used to do this.
Have others in the SD experienced this? Is there a trick to get MS Word to print a specific page number (other than removing all my page numbering)?
I think you have to specify the page and section numbers to print. For a single page it would be p20s2, for a range p20s2-p54s4, where p=page and s=section.
I vaguely remember having to do this back when I did a lot of printing from Word 2007 but haven’t done it in a long time.
You can either specify the page number within the section, as **yendis **shows, or you can use the absolute physical page numbers.
If if you have 5 pages of front matter, and restart page numbering in the body at page 1, then print pages 1-10 using absolute numbering, you get the front matter, plus pages 1-5, not the pages that say 1-10.
What is the specific page number you are trying to print? Is that number the one shown as the page number on the page, or is they physical absolute page?
As a workaround, you could always try saving the Word doc as a PDF, then printing the page from Acrobat.
If you turn on invisibles, you might be able to spot a stray break and delete it. As a test, you could try copying that section and paste it into a new document and see if the problem persists.
In MS Word, hit Control-P for the Print command, and read the instructions on the screen. Under ‘Page Range’, it gives you an example of p1s3 or p1s3-p8s3.
Don’t even need to RTFM – just look at the instructions in front of your face.
Usually, this happens because somewhere in the document, you may have either specified page numbers, restarted page numbers, or made the page numbers unique in a section (i.e. part a-1, part a-2, then part b-1, part b-2, etc.).
When you reset the numbering like this in the document, Word doesn’t know how to specifically deal with it. You can print it using the ABSOLUTE page references, as it may know that there are 250 pages in the document total, but they are all numbered differently. However, I’m not certain of this fact in Word 2007 (its been a while since I’ve used it).
But yeah, sometimes we had to use the print-to-PDF option, then print the individual pages in Adobe, in order to print the specific pages we wanted.