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: I know, because I recently was hit by the same confusion, digging and digging without being able to find the specific setting. 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.

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