![]() Remember when I said that Word has a pretty sophisticated printer model? Here’s where you see that, actually, because instead of a simple 2-sided printout, you can specify different two-sided modes, reverse page orientation or even flip horizontally: 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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