Trouble Printing PDF's from MS Word

Question

We have MS Office for Mac, version X, student & teacher addition.
Recently we found we can no longer print a Word document in PDF,
although we have no difficulty printing documents in Excel and other
Office components. When we try to print a Word document we do
not get any error message, just a very quick "progress bar" (1/2
second in length) and nothing more. Has anyone else had any experience
with this?

Answer 1

Welcome to Apple Discussions, bubblebanium!
I have experienced your problem on several occasions and found the culprit to be a corrupt font. Try selecting everything in the document and changing it to a font that you are certain prints. If the problem persists, try copying everything and paste it into a new document. If your document is several pages, try printing one page to hone in on the problem.
If the problem still persists, does your document have bullet items? If yes, and the bulleted items were created with the automatic bullet feature, then the problem may be the default font used for that feature (most likely the Symbol font).
To change to a different font, go to the Format menu, select Bullets and Numbering. Click on the style of bullets your document uses and then click the Customize button. In the next window, click on the shape of bullet your document uses and then click the Font button below. A Font window appears in which you can then select a different font. Afterwards, if the document prints, then the default font is probably corrupt and you may want to replace it with a good copy.
Hope this helps.