Canceling Print Commands in Word and Excel on the Computer

Working with multiple printers and documents at the same time, there are times when you accidentally press the print command on another document, or you encounter errors when executing the print command. To remedy this situation and delete error print commands, refer to the method of cancelling print commands in Word, Excel 2013, 2010, 2007 that Mytour shares with you in the article below.

Canceling Print Commands in Word and Excel 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007

1. Canceling Print Commands in Word and Excel using Windows Settings

2. Turning off the printer or restarting the computer

This can be considered a necessary measure and should only be used when you cannot perform other operations, such as when the computer is frozen. Because if you turn off the printer or restart or even shut down the computer, you may lose other data that you have not had a chance to save. In addition, suddenly turning off the printer or restarting the computer can also affect hardware devices on the printer or computer.

3. Cancel All Print Commands through the Run Window

- Use the shortcut Windows + R or go to Start => Run to open the Run window on Windows and type Control Printers, then click OK

- In the Printers section, right-click on the current printer you are using and select See what’s printing, a list of executing print commands will appear

- Choose File from the Menu and select Cancel all documents to cancel all print commands

4. Cancel Old Print Commands

For Windows XP, 7, 8.1, select Start ->Run or use the shortcut Windows + R, then type services.msc and press OK

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In the Services dialog that appears, simply scroll and locate the Print Spooler item, right-click, and choose Stop to cancel and halt the print commands.

Next, go to the directory C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS
Delete all files in this folder and reset the Print Spooler

5. Cancel Print Commands Instantly

To do this, select Start -> Run or use the shortcut Windows+R, enter cmd -> Enter the command line net stop spooler

Your print command will now be canceled

6. Cancel All Documents

Navigate to Control Panel\Devices and Printers or Printers and Faxes, right-click on the current printer you are using and select See what’s printing

A new window appears, right-click on the file currently in progress and choose Cancel

If you've mistakenly printed or the print is not progressing, here's how to cancel the print command in Word, Excel currently in use. In reality, we cannot delete print commands in Word, Excel 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007; instead, we have to use computer tools to intervene. This is a necessary step that Microsoft's tools are not specifically equipped for.

Mytour provides a guide on how to cancel print commands on your computer in Word and Excel documents. Additionally, refer to the method of cancelling printer commands immediately if you don't want the printer to print the document incorrectly. If you know better methods to cancel print commands in Word, Excel, feel free to share with us by commenting below.

During document printing, printing on both sides to save paper is quite important, but not everyone knows, especially in Excel, which can be a significant obstacle for many. Printing even and odd pages in Excel helps you organize the content for better printing, selecting suitable sections according to requirements and usage purposes. However, printing on both sides in Excel requires you to install an add-in to use the even and odd page printing feature because Excel does not inherently support this feature but provides user support in the form of add-ins. To understand more about how to print on both sides in Excel, please refer back to the tutorial article on double-sided printing in Excel that we shared earlier. The trick is quite simple and applicable to most current Excel versions such as Excel 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003.