If you have background printing enabled (Tools | Options | Print), then it's
highly unlikely you'll be able to catch a document on the way to the
spooler. That means you have to catch it in the Printers dialog, where there
is a toolbar. Select the document you want to stop printing and choose
Delete (or Cancel) on the Document menu (I may not have this exactly right
since I can't currently access the window). This will eventually stop the
printing, but many pages will already have spooled to the printer (if it's a
laser printer), and it will keep right on chugging.
You're in luck if your printer has a Cancel Job button; this is actually
pretty efficient. Taking the printer offline will stop it, but you'll still
have to delete the print job or it will start up again as soon as you put
the printer back online (even turning the printer off and back on sometimes
doesn't help). The quickest way to stop printing in a printer that has a
direct paper source (open tray or gravity feed) is to remove the paper, but
don't try this on a printer that has a drawer-type tray; it will take longer
to sort out the paper jam than it would to stop the printing by other
methods.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Brooke said:
I can't figure out how to cancel a print job midstream! The stupidly
useless "Microsoft Online Help" says to double-click on the printer icon on
the toolbar (actually, when I do that nothing happens -- when I double click
on the printer icon in the lower RH corner, however, it does open the
printer status window). Then it says to highlight the document -- OK, so
far, so good -- then click "Cancel" on the "Document Menu." There is no
"Cancel" on my toolbar, no "Document Menu", nothing remotely resembling
what's called for. HELP!!
