Word 365. Problem printing range of pages when Table of Contents exists

[AndrewMozley]

I have this problem using Microsoft Word (Office 365): I have about 15 lines in the document (the chapter headings) which are formatted as style Heading 1. I then create a table of contents by going to just before the first chapter (about the sixth page of the document), and click on References | Table of contents and then in the drop-down list, Automatic Table 1. This inserts a table of contents which you can see, and Word has shown the page number of each identified chapter in a column on the right of the ToC.

So far so good. There is a section break right after the ToC (and I can also put one immediately before) because the page numbering starts after that.

I can print the whole document (to a real printer or to my pdf printer). But I find that if I try to print a single page or a range of pages, it doesn’t work. So on the Print screen, where it offers Pages:, if I key in p3 or p3s1 or 46-48 or p1s1-p48s4, none of these work. It doesn’t give an error message – just briefly flashes its small rotating circle and then does nothing.

If I remove the ToC all works well again.

At present I have got round the problem by creating the ToC as above, then laboriously keying in the ToC which I can see and then deleting the table which is the automatically created ToC. That does work, but it means that I will have to remember to update the page numbers by hand before sending to the material (as a PDF) to my printing company.

Thanks. Andrew