WD97: Printing a Range of Pages in a Multiple-Section Document

ID: Q81207

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

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>
For example, to print page 5 of section 3 through page 2 of section 4, type "p5s3-p2s4" (without the quotation marks).

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.


MORE INFORMATION

The steps to print a page or range of pages in Word are detailed below.

  1. Scroll to the page where you want to start printing, and click anywhere within the margins.


  2. Note the page and section number as shown on the status bar as in the following example:


    3. Page 2 Sec 4
  3. Scroll to the last page you want to include in the print selection, and click anywhere within the margins.


  4. Note the page and section number displaying on the status bar as in the following example:


    5. Page 1 Sec 5
  5. On the File menu, click Print.


  6. Under Page Range, select the Pages Option and then type the following in the box:


    7. 2S4-1S5
  7. Click OK.


Additional query words: wrong skipped skips left out incorrect contiguous discontiguous non-contiguous

Keywords : kbualink97 winword word97 kblayout
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto


Last Reviewed: August 16, 1999
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