In my experience, Word has never worked that way. For me, every version of Word has failed to print any content placed in the non-printing area of the page.



On the other hand, if I convert the Word document to a PDF, the output can go right to the edge of the page and when I output the PDF to a printer, there is a checkbox in the print dialog that allows me to scale the entire page to the printable area. This checkbox is usually on be default so pages scale down to fit the printable area unless I specifically uncheck it.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Whether it is intended to work that way or not, that's the way it has been operating until recently for whatever reason I don't know.

I thought of printing the document as a PDF and when I did, it printed as shown on the page without cutting any part of the picture off. Although still adding white space around the document when on paper.

I guess it's just one of the whose things, I'll just have to leave it if there's no logical reasoning for it.

Within Word, the only option that comes to mind is “Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11"” (File | Options | Advanced) but it doesn't appear to be relevant here.

Have you changed printers recently? Or are you using an updated driver which may support (slightly) different options?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Not as far as I'm aware. The print is the same and no updates have been applied recently.

I do wonder if it's a printer setting that may have changed because there are 2 PC's 1 laptop and 1 tablet connected to the printer, and they are all now printing differently to what they used to do. If something has changed I can't for the life of me find what it is.

The fact that two computers are affected does point to it being printer-related. As Charles suggested, see if the manufacturer has information on that.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

I'll have to look into the printer settings/ information a bit more. Thank you everybody for the help.