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Hi,
I am using O2010 Professional Plus UK. It seems that O2010 ignores all setting of the Properties of the printer and only applies the settings you see on the print page of Office itself. That means that all other options of the printer are out of reach: O2010 just ignores them.
This issue is only with O2010 and not with any other software so it clearly must be an O2010 problem.
I am using a Vista 32bit UK OS.
Any help in solving this is more than welcome!
Michael
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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It suggests an incompatible printer driver or the driver is damaged. Download the latest version of the driver, then delete and reinstall the printer. If it persists, take it up with the printer manufacturers support site to see if they have a solution.
-- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
Problem: Microsoft Word 2010 ignores printer settings when in Compatability Mode. When in Word 2010 mode it prints fine. For example: try printing 2 copies, or a page range, current page or anything else in any compatability mode document created in any verson of Word and it does not work. It will print a full copy of the document. But it ignores everything else.
Temp fix: I have people convert the document to Word 2010 format to do any kind of special printing. If they want the page range or 2 copies or anything else it has to be done from Word 2010 format.
Keep in mind that Word 2007 DocX format is Different than Word 2010 DocX and so 2007 docs come up as compatability mode as well and have the same issues as any other .doc docs.
MS should fix this. I know office 2012 is about to release, but this is a really bad bug. I have this issue on brand new images running Windows 7 Pro (updated), Drivers for all the printers updated, and the issue is happening on all the many types of printers we have. Not a driver issue. Word issue.
By the way, the version of Word 2010 is the corporate version with sp1 built in. Not sure if that makes any difference. I don't have 2010 without sp1. Maybe that has less issues. Curious if the guys not experiencing this are running a previous version of 2010.
Chris
First of all, I hope you understand me. My English isn't good.
I have the same problem.This problem only occurs with Office 2010. Suite Adobe works fine, PDF Creator works fine, Office 2007 works fine, and other third-party programs works fine.
I can conclude that there is no driver problem. With Office 2007 everything was fine. I need solution for this problem. I use the following printers:
Xerox 7328 and Xerox Phaser 4510.
Just my computer have this problem in the company. The drivers installed on the all computers are the same.
Thank you in advance and best regards
Yes, this works (as noted earlier in this thread), but what a hassle to do this every time a printer property for a specific document needs to be changed!
You might try closing Word, opening the printer Properties from the Printers folder, changing the settings as desired, and then restarting Word to see if they are reflected.