Word 2010 Prints Blank Pages With No Text.

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System: Dell Optiplex computer with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit in service for < 2 months with all Microsoft Updates installed (except languages).

Office: Office Home & Student 2010 Retail.

Problem: Word documents (newly created and existing previous version) print out blank pages with no text printed on them. All other programs (Office and non-Office) print properly and with no errors.

Word Print preview shows the text that should be printed but does not print the text.

Word Printing to 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer' captures and saves the document with no text .

Word Printing to 'Send To OneNote' sends a blank page with no text into the OneNote Notebooks.

Resolution attempts: A repair of Microsoft Office was performed with no success.

An uninstall and re-install was performed with no success.

The root user folder was added as a Trusted Location in the Word Trust Center with no success.

Different fonts and styles were used in multiple documents with no success.

Multiple websites and forums were reviewed with no resolution to the problem.

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Anonymous

I have fixed my problem

I have a trial 2010 Office download from MS web.

I also have as my own an Office 2000 Preminum on my XP OS.

My problem occured on the 2000 and it also occured on the trial 2010. Got the 2010 to see if problem was in 2000 only or not.

I can not find the Option mentioned "Print the data on the Form" Maybe its because I have a Trial 2010.

Also i do not seem to find it on my 2000.

However I did correct my problem.

Start-Control Panel-Printers&faxes-

Right clicked printer -click properties-

Clicked Advance tab

Removed default Check on "Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster

Checked-"print directly to the printer"

This caused both the Office 2000 a nd the Trial Office 2010 to print.

Now I do not know what the Properties Tabs are on later MS OS's are but for my XP, both 2000

2010 printed after I moved the check to "print directly to the printer.

I hope my correction on my XP OS with Printer helps you and everyone else.

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Stefan Blom 352.3K MVP Volunteer Moderator

It has been suggested elsewhere that this may be caused by the "Print only the data from a form" option in the Advanced category of the Word Options dialog box.

Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

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Anonymous

2018-03-16T17:03:26+00:00

I just checked and my printer is set to print directly the printer. The spooler is clear. PRINTS EXCEL DOCS, not WORD.

I deleted updates that were not X64 recently put on my Office Update. But there are others on my computer. Should I delete all of them.

My problem started around December.

I also tried to get current updates and it says they are not available to try later.

My printer is showing 2 black dots on the page as though I was listing items.
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Anonymous

2017-12-30T23:26:11+00:00

Thank you soooo much! I'd been trying for hours to fix this problem and figured I'd have to take either the printer or the printer and laptop in to see what was going on with the software. Then I read this, followed the instructions, and it fixed the problem like a charm! Saved me a bundle! Still don't know why the default suddenly didn't work anymore, but figure it must have something to do with the MS updates that just went through. Anyway, it's working!
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