Bottom Of Border Not Printing In Mac Microsoft Word

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(Solved) - Printing (Flyer) From Word Without Border ..

Where is Border command in Word 2007/2010/2013 Method A: Border Button in toolbar if you have Classic Menu for Office. In the Menus tab, you will view the border button in toolbar. Just click this button to set borders for tables.

Mar 19, 2018 If your border is visible on the screen, but isn’t printing, maybe your border is outside the area that your printer is able to print. To check for this, you could try File, Export, Create PDF/XPS File, then create a PDF file. Describes how to diagnose print failures in Word 2013, Word 2010, Word 2007, and Word 2003. Explains how to isolate the cause of the print failure and how to resolve the issue. Troubleshoot print failures in Word - Office Microsoft Docs.

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Hey guys, so i have a flyer all done up and ready but when i print i still get a thin little white border around the printout.
i have margins set to 0' all the way around and as yu can see from the screen shot - theres no border visible while i have the file open but when i print it out i still get a little white border as you can see from the screen shot.
How can i print it out without the little white border?
thanks.

shows without border when open in MS Word

after printing i get this little white border ..

Check in the Printer properties. The printer itself is set for a border. Different printer preferences are different, but here is mine for example

hey xhi, thanks.
when i saw your post - i was CERTAIN that would do the trick but it didnt work (???)
i noticed a bunch of other options labled 'borderless' too but not sure if that shoul make a difference. either way im willing to try another suggestion or two before calling it quits cause i just noticed im super low on paper. any other thoughts?

Are you really sure a babysitter will care if there is a white border on the flyer.

no i guess not. but its not her - its me. i start obsessing when stuff aint workin'n the way i want it to.
i'll leave it alone .. for now : )
thanks.

Little issue very similar the other day, I cropped, saved as jpeg and printed no probs!

im done. no more paper.
heres what i did ..
as per mikes suggestion ..
printed to pdf > opened up in reader > right clicked and exported to image. ended up with a great quality image of the flyer. 3K+ x 2K+ @ 906KB !
opened up in viewer > hit print > made sure borderless option was again checked in printers properties > and as per warlocks comment, i tried both before printing. toggled between fit to page and not - and both times ended up with the flyer printing WITH NO border ..
BUT it cropped a little bit of the flyer (both times).
would still say a 99.9% success!
thanks guys!

Understand your frustration, when things don't work as they should.

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Frequently people have problems with material at the bottom of a page (the page number, for example, or the footer) not printing correctly. Often, the characters get cut in half so that only the top half of the line prints. The most common complaint is that the bottom of a page border doesn’t print.

The most common cause of this problem is that the bottom margin, footer margin, or page border is outside the printable area of the page. All printers have an irreducible unprintable area necessitated by the mechanical requirements of paper handling.

Your printer manual may specify the printer’s printable area, or this information may be included somewhere in the Properties dialog for the printer driver. The simplest way to determine the printable area for your selected printer, however, is as follows:

  1. Open to the Page Setup dialog and choose the Margins tab.

  • Any version: Double-click at the top of the horizontal ruler.

  • Word 2003 and earlier: On the File menu, select Page Setup.

  • Word 2007 and above: On the Page Layout tab of the Ribbon, in the Page Setup group, click the dialog launcher (the small arrow in the bottom right corner). Or click the Margins button and choose Custom Margins…

  1. In the Page Setup dialog, select the Margins tab.

  2. Set Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins to zero. Click OK. Word will present the following dialog box:

  1. Click Fix to accept Word’s offer to fix the margins and note what margins it sets. You can then click Cancel to exit the Page Setup dialog without actually changing the margins, but this will let you know what restrictions you’re working under.

Usually the unprintable area will be largest on the trailing edge, that is, the bottom of portrait pages or one side of landscape pages. Inkjet printers in general have a larger unprintable area at the bottom of the page than laser printers (up to 0.67″ is not uncommon; the record is probably 1.01″ in case of the HP 420). Even printers that can print “borderless” may be able to do so only on certain sizes of paper (with a special carrier) and/or will require a special setting in the printer Properties.

Footer doesn’t print

Word’s default bottom margin is 1″ (2.54 cm), which will be adequate for most printers, but the page footer (if any) will be below the bottom margin. The default footer margin in Word is 0.5″ (1.25 cm); this may well be too little for many printers. To deal with that, you need to increase the footer margin.

The header and footer margin settings are on the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog; in Word 2007 and above, you can also adjust them in the Position group of the contextualHeader & Footer Tools Design tab that is displayed when the header or footer is active.

Keep in mind that, if you increase the footer margin, you may also need to increase the bottom margin to maintain the same amount of space between them.

Note: All versions of Word will warn you if you are about to print a document that has page margins outside the printable area. Some earlier versions will not warn you if the header or footer (or a page border) is outside the printable area. Print Preview, however, should always give you a faithful representation of what will print using the currently selected printer. Do not confuse Print Preview with Print Layout view, which merely shows you the page as you have laid it out, not what will actually print. And of course, make sure that you have the correct printer (the one you will actually be using) selected in Word when you format the document.

Page border doesn’t print

Page borders present unique problems because they are, by default, much closer to the edge of the page than any of the margins. If you click Options… in the Page Border dialog, you will see that the default page border setting is “From edge of page,” with a default measurement of 24 points (one third of an inch) and a maximum of 31 points (less than half an inch), so obviously many printers will be unable to print these elements.

To remedy this, change the setting to “From text” instead (again only up to 31 pts); you'll need to uncheck “Surround footer.” Note that “From text” means from the document body margins, not the actual text present; you can get more space between the page border and your text by using left and right paragraph indents to reduce the size of the text inside the document margins. For more on page borders, see the “Page borders” section of my article on borders for Word 2003 and earlier or Word 2007 and above.

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Printing in the unprintable area

If you are determined to print outside the printer's printable area, some workarounds have been devised. One of the simplest is to temporarily tape an extension onto the bottom of the page and set a Custom page size a little longer than the actual sheet, adjusting margins accordingly. This requires some calculation and experimentation but reportedly does work if you are stubborn enough to try it!

Microsoft's suggestion is to define the page size as smaller than the actual so that Word will be tricked into printing the page border, with a measurement “From edge of page,” higher than the actual bottom of the page.

Another solution is to switch to a more modern printer. Many laser printers will print within 0.17″ of the edge on all sides, and inkjet printers marketed as “photo printers” often boast of “borderless” printing (known as “full bleed” printing in the trade).

This article copyright © 2000, 2017 by Suzanne S. Barnhill.

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