I can print but not from word

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• I updated the pc hoping it would resolve a printing issue, but with no succes.

  The PC prints a test page to the network with no issues, and will print a pdf file; however printing an open document or email open in thunderbird results in a printing error.
  
  I have run SFC/scannow which reported and fixed errors. A second sfc /scannow showed all ok, but printing issues remain.

  Grateful for any ideas or suggestions. Sorry cant provide more detail at present as my client is at some distance.

  ---

  john errington

I can Print in Word but not in Excel Files – Steps to Fix – If the user owns a printer that means he/she will use it for various purposes like printing a photo from a browser, printing from word and printing from excel. Sometimes the user might face issue while printing from the excel. When the user goes to print the .xlsx and choose the printer, the print dialogue box says ‘unable to connect to the printer’. If you are dealing with something like this and searching in google by typing I can Print in Word but not in Excel Files – Steps to Fix. Then read our blog which consists of a reliable step-by-step guide to resolve this issue instantly. 

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Printer prints in Word but not Printing in Excel Files. Steps to Fix 

1. First of all, navigate to the control panel and then Printers and Faxes. 
2. Then under Printer Tasks on the left click on Add a Printer and then click Next on the welcome screen. 
3. Now select the local printer attached to this computer and then click on Next. 
4. Select the port from the drop-down list that the Deskjet 2050 is using and then click on Next. 
5. Make sure you select the correct printer model under the manufacturer. Click on the printer and then click on Next. 
6. You can change the printer name or leave as it is. If you like you can also make it default. If you don’t just make sure to select it when you print from excel. Click Next when done. 
7. Don’t share the printer and then click on Next. 
8. Print the test page to make sure that everything is worked and then click on Next followed by Finish. 

Quick Steps to Fix ‘Printer Won’t Print Excel Files’ 

1. First of all, try to uninstall the printer from the “programs and features” that can be accessed by right click on the Windows button. 
2. Then go to the Device Manager and check if the printer is listed there. 
3. In the Control Panel navigate to the Devices and Printers and select any listed printer. You will get some options at the top. 
4. Now click on printer server properties. 
5. Click on the Drivers tab and delete all the printer drivers listed there. 
6. After that delete all the instances of your printer listed in devices and printers. 
7. Restart the PC now. 
8. Press Win+R and it would open a Run dialogue box. 
9. In the run box type %temp% and click Ok or press the Enter button.
10. The temporary files folder will open. You have to delete the files from the folder. 
11. Also, delete the printer from the registries using Regedit. 
12. If it cannot be done then ignore the Regedit option. 
13. Next restart the PC again.  

Things to be Checked Before Initiating Printing in Excel 

Connectivity – First of all check that your printer and computer are connected to the same network via USB or WiFi. 

Drivers – Check whether your printer drivers are updated to the latest version or not. Otherwise, they can cause an error. 

Device Status – Check for device errors such as paper jams, paper feed issues, carriage stalls.  

Print Queue – Clear the printing jobs in the print queue. 

Ink Issues – Check the level of ink and cartridges to prevent issues. 

Print Settings – Check the print quality settings

Test Print – Do a test printing to make sure that everything is well with the printer. 

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A few things to try. Go to Edit>Preferences>Documents and set PDF/A mode to “Never”Then go to Edit>Preferences>Security (enhanced) and deselect “Enable protected mode at startup. If that doesn’t work, you can always try selecting “Print as image” in the advanced print dialog.

Corrupted files or documents that contain corrupted graphics or fonts can cause print errors in Word. Before you reinstall drivers or software, test whether Word can print.

Is your default printer set to ‘Adobe PDF’ instead of your regular printer? When your Print Dialogue is open, click on ‘Advanced‘ next to ‘Properties’ and check you haven’t got ‘Print to File’ checked. If you have just uncheck otherwise it will prompt the file to be saved every time you try to print.

Right-click the icon of your printer from the Devices and Printers window. Click Printer Properties. Go to the Advanced tab and turn OFF the option “Enable advanced printing features”. Save the changes.

Answer: If the PDF displays correctly but prints on a paper printer incorrectly, it’s most often a issue with Adobe Reader or the printer driver. To resolve the problem: … If updating Adobe Reader or the printer driver software doesn’t fix the problem, you can try changing an Adobe Reader setting.

In Word, on the Print page, click the dropdown that contains the printer’s name and look at the bottom of the list. If there is a check mark next to “Print to File”, click that item to remove the check mark.

Check if the ink cartridges are not running out of ink. Replace old ink cartridges including empty ones. Do not use low-quality cartridges. Check if you are not printing blank documents.

Click the Select a file button above, or drag and drop a PDF into the drop zone. Select the PDF you want to convert to the DOCX file format. Watch Acrobat automatically convert the file from PDF to Word document. Download the converted Word document or sign in to share it.

Choose File > Print. Choose Adobe PDF as the printer in the Print dialog box. To customize the Adobe PDF printer setting, click the Properties (or Preferences) button. (In some applications, you may need to click Setup in the Print dialog box to open the list of printers, and then click Properties or Preferences.)

The error normally happens when Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader have new update available. Thus, to resolve the blank PDFs issue, check for updates for your installed version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader. … Normally new update will contain the fix that solves the blank PDF printout problem.

My printer won’t print

Make sure there is paper in the tray(s), check the ink or toner cartridges aren’t empty, the USB cable is plugged in or the printer is connected to Wi-Fi. And if it is a network or wireless printer, try using a USB cable instead.

Corrupted or incomplete software could cause the printer to feed a blank page after each print job. Disconnect the USB cable from the printer, if necessary. In Windows, search for and open the Control Panel. Click Programs and Features.

Open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click a field that contains data you can’t see normally and select all text (Command+A will work after you click in the field) Cut the data out of the field by pressing Command+X or go to the Edit menu and then Cut. … Click back in the original field that you cut the data from.

If you can’t type into a form field on a pdf, it may be due to a browser’s default viewer for pdfs. Fillable forms require Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader/Acrobat DC to fill them out online or on your computer. Many browsers use a different pdf viewer by default that doesn’t support fillable form fields.

From the main acrobat screen, select Edit->Preferences. Click on the General category. Make sure to uncheck ‘Show online storage when saving files’ Make sure to click ‘OK’ (You may need to move the preferences screen to get to the OK button)

Select the “Preview” button to view the hidden text. Select the “Show Preview” button at the bottom of the dialogue box. Select “Show Hidden Text” from the preview of the document. You can scroll through the pages of your PDF using the double arrow buttons on the gray Acrobat navigation bar.

Solution

Make sure the add-in is enabled

– Go to Acrobat Reader Preferences > General. – Uncheck the box for “Show online storage when saving files”. … -Now try to save the file using “Save as” and check if it works. Also, make sure that the application is updated to the latest patch released.

In Acrobat Reader, choose File > Save As or File > Save As Other > Text.

1. This is another ‘stumper’ to me.
   A friend’s computer, which I’m in the process of replacing, recently manifested this issue and the ordinary steps didn’t solve. Need you guys to educate me

   This is some kind of Canon photo printer [used for text etc]. It will print a test page. It will print from Webmail [dishmail in this case]. But it will not print from Microsoft Word. Tried a simple text message in Notepad and it would not print that either.

   So we fetched later driver stack & bloatware from Canon. NO change. After reboot its business as usual. Its set as the default printer, its online, it works, it prints test page, but MS Word …. nada.
   This seems to have started just a couple of weeks back, so far as we can tell.
   This is not a geeky user, so he does not download things just for fun, and does not update his system via Microsoft or other good vendors.

   What should I try? I’m ASSUMING the print spooler is ok since it will print SOME things… just not the main/obvious things.

   Z

2. Check that the default printer is the one showing in the Print dialogue box.
   Check that the paper source is set to automatic or whatever you have (not manual feed)
   Check that it’s set to print all pages.
   Check all other settings.
   Also check Page setup>Print tab options in Word (paper source, paper size, in particular), as well as Default Tray under Print>Options>Print tab, and any other options you can find.
   Also make sure Print to File isn’t checked in Print dialogue box.

   What does it do when you try to print? Nothing? Error?…

3. I’m wondering if, since one of the ‘features’ is its image-print capabilities, is there an option that only prints image files? the test-page function is image, and it will print from a simple photo-editing program, «Fix-it». it will not print from notepad or Word, though it is the default printer and is attached to the computer via USB. It will sorta print from email [webmail] but has an odd way of doing so.
   Reloaded newer drivers, rebooted, same problem.

   no it gives no errors. just does nothing.

   Does the image program by chance NOT require Print Spooling? :confused

4. Hi Zapp,

   The original Print Spooler was to provide a place to store your print data and feed it to the printer as needed so that you could continue to work on other things. It was always your choice to have it active or to turn it off. Turned off you would have to wait for the printer to finish printing before you could go back to work. I don’t know what the «New and Improvers» may have done to it lately. Hope this helps a little.

   Try it with Notepad, Wordpad and any other printing programs you have. May point to Word as the culprit.

   Good Luck,
   Jim

   Last edited: Apr 10, 2010

5. Ok, so I take it you checked all those settings I mentioned. Did you look for a function that only prints images? I’ve never heard of it.
   Here’s a long shot if you working from a laptop, based on your mentioning the magic word «USB».
   Maybe it’s a USB problem — I have no idea why it would be. But here’s something a couple of us have been trying when USBs give trouble, and it’s easy to do, so you could give it a try if you like:
   Unplug the power lead and remove the battery
   Hold down the start button for 30 seconds
   Reconnect battery and power lead and retry.

   If it’s a PC, you could try uninstalling the USB drivers and reboot (they will reinstall automatically).

6. 
   

   plodr
   Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

   What model?
   I looked over Canon’s choices and some printers are photo printers. I was unable to find information on whether these printers are capable of printing anything besides photos.

7. Looks like photo printers only print pictures. The Canon Selphy only prints JPEG (see attachment, which is a page from the Troubleshooting section of the manual — see Q at top right)), while others (checked Canon and HP) only print JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.

   Attached Files:

   • 

8. Turned out this was a simple cartridge issue. didn’t know the canon uses one cartridge for text, others for other things…. makes sense now

9. A msg on the screen telling you you need to change cartridges would have been nice!:mad

10. Hi I am having the same issue with my canon 2200, it’s an all in one scanner, printer. when I 1st got my printer it worked fine I hooked it up to my laptop and printed from word it worked fine. One day I was clicking on the word app in windows 8 and clicked open one note by accident ,after that word would no longer print, I am pretty sure that one note thing screwed it up.

11. It definatley is one note you can print through that program. some how it hijacked the printer when I opened it, I tried changing it back to the 2200 being the default printer but it doesn’t work. somehow I think skydrive plays into it as well

12. Probably should have started a new post, but anyway…
    Looks like you have to stop OneNote from starting automatically, then put your default printer back to what you want.
    The following is from:
    http://www.ehow.com/how_8455985_stop-microsoft-office-onenote-launching.html
    Not sure how it will go with Win8, but if you can find Administrative Tools, you should be OK.

    1. [FONT=&quot]Click «Start,» then «Control Panel.» Click the «System and Security» link.[/FONT]
    2. [FONT=&quot]Click «Administrative Tools» and wait for Windows Explorer to open and display a list of shortcuts to system utilities. Double-click the «System Configuration» shortcut link.[/FONT]
    3. [FONT=&quot]Click the «Startup» tab after the «System Configuration» window appears on the screen. Locate the Microsoft OneNote option in the list of startup programs.[/FONT]
    4. [FONT=&quot]Click the check box next to the Microsoft OneNote entry to disable it from running when Windows starts. Click the «OK» button to save the changes and close the «System Configuration» window.[/FONT]
    5. [FONT=&quot]Restart the computer. Microsoft OneNote no longer loads when you boot into Windows. To start OneNote, you must click «Start,» «All Programs,» «Microsoft Office» and then «Microsoft OneNote.»[/FONT]
    6. [FONT=&quot]Click «Start,» then «Printers and Devices.»[/FONT]
    7. [FONT=&quot]Locate your preferred default printer in the list of devices on the screen. Right-click the printer device, and click «Set as Default Printer» on the pop-up menu.[/FONT]
    8. [FONT=&quot]Close the «Printers and Devices» window. Windows programs no longer prompt you to print to the OneNote virtual printer when printing documents. Instead, Windows prompts you to print to your preferred default printer. You can still print to OneNote by choosing it in the «Print» dialog box.[/FONT]

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