Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about the Mac for quite a while.
Why it’s so hard to find I cannot say, but at least you know it’s available (assuming your printer supports it) and how to select it! Generally speaking, you’ll be choosing Long-Edge binding for a typical duplex printout.Īnd now you know the secrets of two-sided printing in Microsoft Word for Mac. Which leads to the very obvious question of what the heck is the difference between short-edge and long-edge binding? Microsoft describes it thusly: Long-edge binding has pages flipped on the long end, while short-edge binding flips on the short end. If your printer does not have the built-in ability to print double sided.
Is this because OS X doesn't recognize manual duplex as true duplex printing The Layout section shows information based on the PPD for the respective printer. Remember when I said that Word has a pretty sophisticated printer model? Here’s where you see that, actually, because instead of a simple 2-sided printout, you can specify different two-sided modes, reverse page orientation or even flip horizontally: 11 new Xerox Accounting Code Greyed Out results have been found in the last 90. I've updated the drivers, but when I try and print two sided, the box under 'Layout' on the Print screen is grayed out. On this settings window you finally see Two-Sided, but surprisingly, it’s a menu of options rather than a simle checkbox like it is in Pages:
To find it you have to go to the Layout option: Compare that printer dialog window with the equivalent from Microsoft Word for Mac:Ī more sophisticated way of choosing which pages to print and the option of collating them as they come out of the printer, but where’s that two-sided printing option? It’s big and it does a beautiful job with prints, whether one sided or two. This is for an HP PageWide Pro 577 MFP printer. Thing of it is, if you were using Apple Pages (which you could do, of course, by opening up a Word doc file), that 2-sided option is very much front and center: Confirm that a duplex option is installed. USB 3 devices appear under USB 3.0 Bus, and USB 2 devices appear under USB 2.0 Bus. The printer is not allowing you to print on both the front and back sides of the page (duplex printing). Under the Hardware heading on the left side of the System Information window, click USB. I know, because I recently was hit by the same confusion, digging and digging without being able to find the specific setting. Check if the printer is getting recognized by your Mac: From the Apple menu, choose About This Mac. Turns out that there is indeed an option for two sided printing within Word for Mac, but it’s in an odd place. I believe it’s because Word has far more complicated printing options for documents, but be that as it may, it’s quite odd that you can’t choose duplex / 2-sided from within the Word print settings window.
You’re definitely not the first Mac user to notice that Microsoft dropped a different printer driver interface into Word than it has in its other Mac programs.