Word 2010 will not print images or text boxes

Anonymous
2011-03-08T21:00:27+00:00

I have a Word 2010 doc that will not print images or text boxes, of which the doc contains twenty or so. I have tried printing to different printers (different brands/models) in our office, to no avail. When printing to PDF (Acrobat Pro, not Word's built-in distiller), it works; so does doing a Save As using the built-in PDF distiller. Curiously, a single image in the doc does, in fact, print; it was imported from a 2003 doc (however, so were most of the other images that are not printing). In addition, I have a SmartArt component (org chart) that is printing fine.

Any suggestions on a solution are appreciated. Converting to PDF each time I need to print is tedious and should not be necessary when using the world's most popular word processor...

Thanks.

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Anonymous
2011-03-08T23:27:59+00:00

I think you are correct. This does sound like a problem with the printer driver. Check to make sure that you have the latest driver and then delete and reinstall the printer.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-07-03T12:57:38+00:00

    Hi,

    Sorry I mean print preview. I have enabled the 'print drawings created in Word' option.

    I have pretty much been through all of the printing options enabling and disabling them one by one and testing, to no avail.

    Thanks for your help,

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-07-10T15:36:29+00:00

    My situation for not being able to print pictures was this: 

    • Regardless of the printer selected, including PDF drivers & FAX, the pictures did not show when the Print options was selected from the File column.
    • Under Options, Display, the "Print drawings created in Word(i) was already selected, thanks to a hint I took from this page last year, but this time that option didn't help,

    Experimenting, this worked, but don't ask me why -- makes no sense

    • Checked "Print Hidden Text"

    Uh, "text"? Yeah, text.  I've no idea what triggered this.  Possible this is a factor:, wanted to float the picture away from its default position.  In 2003, that ability was part of the picture properties.  In 2010 its a "text" property, I had to right-click the picture and change 'text wrap"  to "Tight".

    There's much one could infer here about the possible linkage of forcing a picture to be treated as "hidden text" in order to make the choices apply to actual graphics.  One would hope there is not a linkage, and that a better way to fix this is available for if I had actually been using hidden text, there probably would have been a reason for it.

    TM

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-10T04:57:02+00:00

     

    ...the problem is probably that you don't have "Print drawings created in Word" checked in File | Options | Display: Printing options...

     

    This option  worked for me and now I'm able to print the text boxes within Word 2013

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-13T14:10:19+00:00

    I am having the same issues of not able to print images in Word 2010.  I can print the image in .Paint and also in PowerPoint.  I have tried all these procedures listed above, including reinstalling the printer driver with no success.  If I convert the doc to .pdf it prints fine.  I also cannot print the image if I save the file to Word 97 or 2003.

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