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Word gives you complete control over how it prints your document. If desired, you can print more than one copy of your document. To print to a file, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Print dialog box.
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2019-03-01 20:08:39
Jim Scott
The trick is getting Number of Copies to reset back to 1 after a print job. My Excel 2000 has been stuck on "2" for years. It drives me nuts.
UPDATE: Aha! It is Excel not the printer/printer driver. For some reason, Excel sets default value of Number of Copies to 2 at random points (from my perspective since I never would do this on purpose). Fortunately the folks at PC Review (UK) documented the solution.
Open the affected spreadsheet. Select File then Page Setup. Assuming one is on the Page tab, click on Options. That opens the present default printer properties window in a special mode². On the Page Layout tab, set Copies to "1" and click Okay then Okay again to close the Page Setup window. On my Excel this worked ... but had to be done on each file separately. < eyes rolling >
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¹ https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/how-do-i-change-the-default-number-of-copies-to-print-to-one.3711349/
² I say "special mode" because I had already changed the Copies value by coming directly to this window from the Devices and Printers window AND the change did NOT stick. Apparently, each Excel spreadsheet file stores values which it uses to override default values in the printer properties when it prints a spreadsheet. Good ole MS in our shorts again.
2019-03-01 19:49:47
Jim Scott
The trick is getting Number of Copies to reset back to 1 after a print job. My Excel 2000 has been stuck on "2" for years. It drives me nuts.
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