WD: Print Selection May Hang System When Section Break Selected
Article ID: 125176
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q125176
SYMPTOMS
If you try to print a selection from Word for Windows that contains more
than one section, and each section has different headers or footers, you
may receive the error message:
Word cannot read the header or footer in this document. Save the
document in Rich Text Format, close it, and then reopen it.
Clicking OK several times may close the error message and print the
document, or it may cause your system to hang (stop responding).
WORKAROUND
To print across sections in a document, follow these steps:
- On the File menu, click Print.
- Click the Pages option.
- In the Pages box, type the range of pages and sections you want to
print. For example, to print from page 4 in section 2 to page 5 in
section 5, type p4s2-p5s5.
- Click OK.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
This problem can happen with any type of printer.
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