Question : I am currently editing a Word document on my Mac, and was asked to do so in Review mode, so everybody I will send it to will be able to track the changes I’m suggesting. But with each edit or change I make to the document, my spouse’s name is added to it instead of mine…
As my spouse is in no way involved in the content or the editing and reviewing of this document, I don’t want others to get the impression she might be…
So, how do I fix this ?
Answer : The problem you are running into is that your spouse has logged in to her Microsoft Account on your MS Office (maybe to reach her OneDrive or something) and she forgot to log out… here’s how to fix this :
To switch the Microsoft Account from MS Office365 (mainly used for school and business accounts) to Office 2021 for Mac (mainly for private use), do this : – open Word – in the top menu bar, click on ‘Word’ – in the pulldown menu that appears, click on ‘Sign Out’
When done, the ‘Sign Out’ option will disappear from the pull down menu, and no ‘Sign In’ option will appear there… so you need to use a different route : – open Word – in the top menu bar, click ‘File’ – in the pull down menu that appears, click on ‘New from Template…’ – in the new window that opens, click on the ‘Sign In’ button top-left – now a login window will open where you can use various ways of signing in (if you have the MS Authenticator app on your iPhone, the easiest way is to select that option to login) – when logged in, your name and initials will appear in the place where the ‘Sign In’ button used to be
I usually work in Apple’s Pages.app to do my text editing, but now someone sent me a school document that was made in MS Word. It opens just fine in Word for Mac, but when I want to print, I can’t find the “Two-sided printing” option…
How can I do Two-sided printing in Word for Mac ?
Answer :
As always, the solution is simple, you just have to know where to look and what to look for…
…anyway, here’s how-to do this in Word 16 (2021) :
Note : in older versions it is similar, but sometimes slightly different (just one of those things to know is that “Two-sided printing” is called “Duplex printing” on Windows and therefore also in older versions of MS Office for Mac…)
open the document in Word for Mac
press the [CMD] + [P] key combo on your keyboard to open the Print window ( or goto Word > File > Print )
click on “Copies & Pages” and choose “Layout” from the pulldown menu
in the Layout settings view, see that “Two-Sided” is listed, with the option to choose “Long Edge Binding” (for portrait mode documents) and “Short Edge Binding” (for landscape mode documents)
> note that if “Two-Sided” is not listed here, your printer doesn’t have the option to print two-sided automatically, and you will have to do the two-sided printing manually [see below]
That’s it !
If your printer can’t do two-sided printing automatically, you can do this to get two-sided printing manually :
open the document in Word for Mac
press the [CMD] + [P] key combo on your keyboard to open the Print window ( or goto Word > File > Print )
click on “Copies & Pages” and choose “Microsoft Word” from the pulldown menu
in the Microsoft Word settings view, set “Print:” to “Even pages only”
then go back to “Copies & Pages” and at “Pages:” set both “From:” and “To:” to 1 and click the Print button
when your print is ready, draw a huge arrow on the back of the printed page pointing upward like the text on the front side
then put the page in the printer’s feeder drawer and make sure the arrow you have drawn on it is on the upside and pointing into the printer drawer and close the printer drawer
then click on “Copies & Pages” and choose “Microsoft Word” from the pulldown menu
in the Microsoft Word settings view, set “Print:” to “Even pages only”
then go back to “Copies & Pages” and at “Pages:” set both “From:” and “To:” to 1 and click the Print button
now look at the printed page that comes out and figure out how to put the pages in after having them printed on one side (make sure you have this correct before proceeding ; if you can’t get your head around this, just redo the above steps and print a new testpage)
now, get ready to print the entire document :
press the [CMD] + [P] key combo on your keyboard to open the Print window ( or goto Word > File > Print )
click on “Copies & Pages” and choose “Microsoft Word” from the pulldown menu
in the Microsoft Word settings view, set “Print:” to “Even pages only”
then go back to “Copies & Pages” and at “Pages:” select “All”
then wait for all even pages to print
when done, flip over the bulk of printed paper the way you figured out to be right (using your test page as a reference) and put it back in the printing drawer
make sure that not only the orientation is correct, but that the first page is on top and the last page is at the bottom also
click on “Copies & Pages” and choose “Microsoft Word” from the pulldown menu
in the Microsoft Word settings view, set “Print:” to “Odd pages only”
then go back to “Copies & Pages” and at “Pages:” select “All”
then wait for all odd pages to print
…now check if your document is printed correctly on both sides !
if not… you have gotten your page flipping incorrect… too bad… you’ll have to redo from start…
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