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If you are using Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Word for Office 365 with Windows 10), see Troubleshoot print failures in Word for Office 365 on Windows 10.
This article suggests ways in which you can diagnose and resolve issues when you cannot print a Microsoft Word document.
Examples of print failure are as follows:
Note
Before you continue, see the 'References' section for known issues in Word that might match your printer's behavior. If you do not find a match for your error message or your printer's behavior, follow the steps in this article to troubleshoot your printing problem.
To resolve a print failure in Word, you must determine its cause. Causes typically fit into one of the following categories:
Do not make assumptions about what is causing your printing problem. Instead, rely on systematic troubleshooting to reveal the cause.
Use the following tests to help determine the cause of your printing failure.
Damaged documents or documents that contain damaged graphics or damaged fonts can cause print errors in Word. Before you reinstall drivers or software, test the Word program's ability to print. To do this, follow these steps.
Open a new blank document in Word.
On the first line of the document, type the following text:
=rand(10)
Press Enter. This inserts 10 paragraphs of sample text.
Try to print the document.
If the document prints successfully, change to a different font, or insert clip art, a table, or a drawing object.
To change the font, follow these steps:
To insert clip art, follow these steps:
To insert a table, follow these steps:
To insert a drawing object, follow these steps:
Test the print function again.
Open a new blank document in Word.
On the first line of the document, type the following text:=rand(10)
Press Enter. This inserts 10 paragraphs of sample text.
Try to print the document.
If the document prints successfully, change to a different font, or insert clip art, a table, or a drawing object.
To change the font, follow these steps:
To insert clip art, follow these steps:
To insert a table, follow these steps:
To insert a drawing object, follow these steps:
Test the print function again.
The success or failure of these tests shows whether Word can print generally. These tests may also give you clues about certain fonts or graphics that Word cannot print.
If you do not receive errors in the test document but still cannot print your original document, your original document may be damaged. This may be true even if you can print the same document on another computer, because there are many situations in which the symptoms of file damage appear on some computers and not on other computers.
Again, rely on systematic troubleshooting instead of on assumptions about what is causing the problem. Therefore, if you cannot print a particular document but can print other documents in Word, you may have a damaged document. Troubleshoot the problem accordingly. For more information about how to troubleshoot damaged Word documents, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
826864 How to troubleshoot damaged Word documents
If Word cannot print at all, or if Word cannot print a certain font or a certain kind of graphic, go to 'Step 2: Test Printing in Other Programs.'
The scope of the printing problem may reveal its cause. For example, some printing problems affect only Word, whereas other printing problems affect several of or all Windows-based programs.
The following tests can help determine whether this problem involves programs other than Word.
If you found in Step 1: Test printing in other documents' that the print problem occurs only with certain fonts or certain graphics images, try to reproduce this problem in WordPad. To do this, apply the same font, or insert the same kind of graphics image. (To select a different font in WordPad, use the same method that you use in Word.)
To insert a graphics image in WordPad, follow these steps:
On the Insert menu, click Object.
Note In Windows 8 and Windows 7, click Insert Object on the Home tab.
Follow one or both of the following steps:
After you finish your testing in WordPad, you can test the print functions in your web browser or your other Office programs. You can also try to print a test page for your printer. To print a text page, follow these steps:
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers.
Notes
Right-click the icon for your printer, and then click Properties.
On the General tab, click Print Test Page.
If you cannot print a test page, or if you cannot print in several or all Windows-based programs, you have a printer driver problem, a Windows problem, a hardware problem, or a connectivity problem.
If the problem is limited to a particular font, a damaged font file may be the cause. For more information about how to test and reinstall fonts, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
314960 How to install or remove a font in Windows
If you can print without problems in all programs except Word, go to 'Step 3: Test printing with different printer drivers.'
You may be able to use Windows printing help and troubleshooters to resolve the printing problem.
If Word is the only program on your computer that cannot print, you may think that Word is the cause of the problem. Be aware that Word is a very printer-intensive program. Therefore, a minor problem with the printer driver affects Word before it affects other programs.
To determine whether the printer driver is the cause of the problem, you can test different drivers. If the Word printing problem occurs only when you print documents that use a certain font or a certain kind of graphics image, try to print to another printer.
If no other printer is available, contact the manufacturer to determine whether there is an updated version of the driver or a different driver that works with your printer model. See the 'References' section for information about how to contact a third-party vendor.
If the Word printing problem occurs even when you print documents that are made up only of text, you can use a generic, text-only printer driver to test printing from Word. To do this, follow these steps for your version of Windows.
Note On some versions of Windows, these steps may require access to the Windows installation CD-ROM or access to a network drive that contains the Windows installation files.
Take one of the following actions, as appropriate for your situation:
Click Add a printer.
Click Add a local printer on the first screen of the Add Printer Wizard.
Make sure that the Use an existing port check box is selected, change the dropdown option to File: (Print to file), and then click Next.
In the Manufacturers list, click Generic, and then click Next.
Leave the default printer name, click Next, and then click Finish.
When the driver installation is complete, open a document in Word, and then do the following, as appropriate for your situation:
Do the following, as appropriate for your situation:
Change the location to My Document, and then name the file Test.prn.
Click OK.
If you receive an error message in Word when you print files that contain only text but do not receive the error message when you print with the generic, text-only printer driver, your printer driver may be damaged. In this case, contact the manufacturer for help in removing the printer driver and installing an updated version. See the 'References' section for information about how to contact a third-party vendor.
If the printing problem occurs with a different printer driver, go to 'Step 4: Test the Word program files and settings.'
After you verify that the printing problem is not limited to a particular document or to a particular printer driver, and that the problem is limited to the Word program, test the Word program by starting by using only the default settings.
For more information about how to start by using the default settings, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Baseļ¼
921541 How to troubleshoot problems that occur when you start or use Word
If the printing problem continues to occur, run Detect and Repair to reinstall the missing or damaged program files. To run Detect and Repair, follow these steps.
Exit all Office programs.
Use one of the following procedures, depending on your version of Windows:
Open Add or Remove Programs.
Click Change or Remove Programs, click Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office Word) or the version of Office or Word that you have in the Currently installed programs list, and then click Change.
Click Repair or Repair Word (Repair Office), and then click Continue or Next.
To look for device drivers or memory-resident programs that might be interfering with the Word print function, start Windows in safe mode, and then test printing to a file in Word. To start Windows in safe mode, follow these steps, as appropriate for your version of Windows.
Note In Windows 8, click Settings from the Charms menu, click Power, and then click Restart.
3. Press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts.
Note You have to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you must try to restart your computer. To do this, wait until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shut down and restart your computer.
4. On the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to select the Safe Mode option, and then press ENTER.
5. Log on to your computer by using a user account that has administrative credentials.
Note You must be logged on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to finish this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
Warning
When you follow the steps in this article, you may disable the System Restore Service and may remove any previously created restore points.
For more information about how to use the System Restore utility to restore the computer to an earlier state, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
306084 How to restore Windows XP to a previous state
Click Start, click Run, and then type the following command in the Open box: msconfig
Click OK.
On the General tab, click Selective Startup, and then click to clear all the successive check boxes.
Note You cannot click to clear the Use Original BOOT.INI check box.
Click OK, and then click Restart to restart your computer.
For more information about how to perform a clean restart in Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
310353 How to configure Windows XP to start in a 'clean boot' state
If the Word printing problem does not occur when you start Windows in safe mode, use clean-boot troubleshooting to help determine the source of the problem.
Double-click the Avery Word Template file you downloaded and saved to your copmuter. If the template looks like a blank page, select Table Tools > Layout > Show Gridlines to view the template layout.
Once the file is open, type your information into the template. Highlight the text you entered and use the tools in Microsoft Word to format the text.
Click the Insert tab in the Ribbon Toolbar to insert your own image, clip art, shapes and more.
Select your image in the template and click the Page Layout tab in the Ribbon Toolbar. Then click Text Wrapping and select In Front of Text in the drop down list.
How to create a sheet of all the same labels: