If you’re used to using Word you might remember that, when you want to print just the current page you need to click in the page and then choose to print it. The current page isn’t the one you are looking at – necessarily – it is the one where the insertion point is located.
Fast forward to Word 2010 – all of a sudden – all bets are off. When you click File to move to the backstage view and click Print you see the print preview to your right. Whatever page shows there is the page that will be printed if you choose to print the current page. If that’s not the page you want to print, use the navigation tools to move to the page to print and then click Print.
It’s smarter and it really is how it should work. It won’t cause problems for new users because they don’t know how Word used to work, it’s us old users who need to rethink the logic here. Lucky for us though the page where the insertion point was located is the page that shows in Print preview by default.
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2010 seems harder than 2003. In 2010, I have to change the settings from ‘print all pages’ to ‘print current pages’, 2 clicks, then 1 click to print. 2003 looks a click faster to me plus it starts and opens this particular document much faster than 2010.
Helen, Is there a way to print a page without using the mouse? In previous versions I could hit ctrl+p; alt+u (I think, or maybe alt+c). This was a quick way of printing the current page of a long document without dragging the mouse pointer around and clicking all over the place – which is a big time waster in my opinion. Randy
John, did you ever find a way of making it work quicker?