ID: Q189045
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In Word, you can create a multiple-section document with different page numbering in each section. To specify a page or a range of pages to print, you must supply both the page and section number of the range you want to print. In a multiple-section document that contains more than a single page 1, Word cannot determine which "page 1" to print unless you also supply a section number.
To print a range of pages within a nonadjacent section or across sections, use the following syntax in the Pages box:
p<page number>s<section number>-p<page number>s<section number>
To print nonadjacent pages or nonadjacent sections, type the page and section numbers, separated by commas (,). For example, to print sections 3 and 5 (not section 4), type "s3,s5" (without the quotation marks). To print pages 2 through 5 of section 3 and pages 1 through 4 of section 5, type "p2s3-p5s3,p1s5-p4s5" (without the quotation marks).
For more information, choose the Help button in the Print dialog box and then select the "Setting Printing Options" topic.
To print pages 1 through 12 in section 3, type "p1s3" and "p12s3" in the From and To boxes, respectively.
NOTE: The page numbers should correspond to the formatted page number and not the physical page number in the document. You may need to repaginate your document to determine the correct page numbers for printing.
The steps to print a page or range of pages in Word are detailed below.
To print a range of pages, steps appropriate to your version of Word.
To print a page or range of pages in Word, follow these steps:
1. Scroll to the page where you want to start printing, and click
anywhere within the margins.
the following example:
Page 2 Sec 4
and click anywhere within the margins.
the following example:
Page 1 Sec 5
6. Under Page Range, select the Pages Option and then type the following
in the box:
2S4-1S5
These procedures assume that you are using the mouse and a keyboard. To use the procedure with a keyboard only, refer to pages 276 and 277 of the "Microsoft Word for Windows User's Reference," version 1.x or page 114 of the "Microsoft Word for Windows User's Guide," version 2.x.
1. From the Tools menu in Word 2.0, choose Repaginate Now. From the
Utilities menu Word 1.x, choose Repaginate Now.
anywhere within the margins.
the following example:
Pg 2 Sec 4
and click anywhere within the margins.
the following example:
Pg 1 Sec 5
option. In the From box, type the starting page number (from step 3),
an "S" (without the quotation marks) for "section," and the section
number (from step 3). In the Pages box of Word 1.x, select the From
option, and enter the information as for version 2.0. For this example,
it should appear as follows:
2S4
(without the quotation marks) for "section," and the section number
(from step 5). For this example, it should appear as follows:
1S5
In Word 6.0 and later, you can print non-adjacent pages.
If you want to print non-adjacent pages in Word 2.x, you can obtain the PrintRanges macro. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q100491
TITLE : WD0523: Frequently Requested Macros Descriptions
"Microsoft Word User's Guide," version 6.0, pages 516-517
"Microsoft Word for Windows User's Guide," version 2.x, pages 114, 421-427
"Microsoft Word for Windows User's Reference," version 1.x, pages 274, 276-7
Additional query words: wrong skipped skips left out incorrect contiguous discontiguous non-contiguous
Keywords : kbdta
Version : MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a; WINDOWS:2.0,2.0a,2.0a-CD,2.0b,2.0c,6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfoLast Reviewed: May 5, 1999