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Printing Only Selected Pages

Summary: Want to print only certain pages from your document? It’s easy when you know how to specify pages (and page ranges) in the Print dialog box. This tip explains all the ins and outs. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)

Word gives you complete control over how it prints your document. You can either print the entire document, or you can print a portion of it. To print only selected pages, follow these steps:

  1. Choose Print from the File menu. You will see the Print dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
  2. In the Pages box, indicate the page numbers you want to print.
  3. Click on OK.

When you specify page numbers, Word allows you quite a bit of flexibility. The following are some general guidelines for specifying page numbers:

  • You can specify a single page number.
  • You can specify a group of non-sequential pages by separating them by commas, i.e., 4, 8, 19.
  • You can specify a sequential range of pages by putting a dash between them. Thus, 4-7 would print pages 4 through 7.
  • You can print an entire section by using s. For instance, to print section 5 of your document, you would use s5.
  • You can print multiple sections the same as you would print multiple pages. For example, s2, s6 would print sections 2 and 6.
  • You can specify pages within a section by using s and p with page numbers. For instance, if you want to print pages 2 through 7 of section 4, you would use p2s4-p7s4.
  • You can specify a range of pages across sections in the same manner. To print beginning with page 2 of section 4 and ending with page 5 of section 7 you would use p2s4-p5s7.

Tip #1065 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003


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