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.
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?
HI there,
I have been using Word 2010, however my documents are in 2003-2009 version. When I print my document, I would like for the print menu to stay on “Print Current Page Only”. That does not happen when I save the document, it goes back to “Print All Pages”. So each time I open the document to modify it, I have to change the Print Setting. Is there a way to keep it on “Print Current Page Only”. Please let me know, it is a pain to have to change this feature.
Thanks for your response in advance.
Trudy
‘Print All Pages’ is misleading when it hides the ‘Print Single Page’ Function. The Heading should be Intuitive…’Print Page(s)’ would avoid a guessing game.
how many times do I forget to select print current in a large document before umpteen pages have been unneccesarily printed – can I set print current page as default?
@ John, Randall, Trudy, Steve, & Alan
just always use the easy keystroke/shortcut:
Control-P, Alt-E, Return
–> prints the current page ONLY, no mousing, no messing, takes no time at all
Helen, it seems to me that Word 2010 lacks “print current page” entirely. You wrote that clicking File/Print will show the current page, then clicking “print current page” will print that page, not the page with the insertion point. But I don’t even see the option. I can either print everything or a “custom range”, and the only way to do the current page seems to be to fill in the custom range with the page number I want. Really clunky. But programs like Word are hiding so many of my commonly used commands that I suspect I have to “activate” it somehow.
Or …. I could be missing something that’s right in front of my eyes.
Patrick – click the down-arrow next to “Print All Pages” and you’ll see the Print Current Page option. Really a pain in the a$$ if you ask me.
You used to be able to add a command to your toolbar that would print the current page with one click, but a Print Current Page command doesn’t appear in the list of commands you can add to your Quick Access Toolbar, so that’s not even an option. Please let me have my Word2003 back!!!!