Print page range in word document that has section breaks
By: Salim Vasani
I came across this problem when I was helping one of our users print a range of pages in a word document. Everything seemed to be correct but the document just wouldn’t print. We did not receive any error messages. Both, the printer and his settings seemed fine. We were able to print other documents fine.
I then took a closer look at the document and noticed that the document used sections. Some googling and we got the solution.
Solution: If a word document contains section breaks and you are trying to print a range of pages, you need to specify the range in the page#section# format.
Example: In our document we were trying to print pages ‘52-56′. The document had 5 sections and these pages were in the 5th section ranging from page numbers 1 through 5. In order to print these pages we specified the range as ‘p1s5-p5s5′.
If your range spans across multiple sections, you need to specify the range accordingly. For example ‘p5s4-p2s5′.
