MS Word printing to pdf without borders

Not sure if this post and the replies were pre an upgrade of some sort, but people were still saying thank you for this fix last year so I may as well share my discovery.

I had the same problem and it was 'Go for Joy's mention of borders that got me thinking.

A really simple solution to this, if you are wanting to print A4 to PDF, is simply to choose the A4 borderless option in the File/Page set up/Paper size drop down. Click on A4, then hover on the arrow, wait for the options to appear and the choose A4 (borderless).

Then print to PDF as normal. My A4 PDFs now have no borders.

There are borderless options for a few paper sizes. For anything other than the standard options i.e. the ones with arrows you'll need to use 'Go for Joy's method.

N.B. You do have to make the borderless selection for each individual file.

Hope that helps.

You. Are. A. God. Among. Men.

Seriously, all day yesterday trying to finish formatting the cover for my book...and everytime I saved it to pdf it had borders. So frustrating. Thanks so much!

Hi Go4Joy,

You are indeed great! Just one problem...I tried to create a PDF of a 5pp Word document with a picture cover (photo pasted onto the Word document's first page) and the PDF came back in two halves - regardless of what I tried - with the front cover in one file and the 4 pages of text (with inserted pictures) in a separate ".2" file. How do I create just one file like all the rest of the methods?

Cheers!

Foodie.

Hi Foodie,

Did you find the solution to your issue? I'm curious to know.

Cheers,

Maiyo

Joy,

You are a godsend! Your post was the first one I saw in my Google search and it saved me additional tears and frustration.

Thank you for sharing this nugget of knowledge!

Cheers,

Maiyo

Hi Maiyo,

No, I have not found a solution other than getting someone else to do my PDFs on a Microsoft operating system, which is of course very unsatisfactory. Any ideas?

Foodie.

Hi Foodie,

The only way I managed to do this is to click somewhere in first section and then:

1. Cmd+P
2. Page Setup
3. Select Paper Size: PDF (borderless) - the one you created as Go for Joy described

Than click on next section of Document and repeat the process (Cmd+P,...).

Do this for all sections and you shouldn't get splitted files.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Mitja.

Hi Mitja,

It did not work for me quite the way you described. But what I did was to "Select All" from the "Edit" menu of Word (instead of setting up each page separately) and then I followed all previous advice: i.e. cmd+P - Page setup - PDF Borderless - Save as PDF.

And it worked PERFECTLY! All pages were in one PDF file; no splitting.

Many thanks for helping me to find my solution! :-)

Foodie.

Thanks Foodie,

This is really helpful and cmd+A is working for me also. You just saved me at least 3 minutes per day! Thank you 😉

Mitja.

That's great! I calculate that after 18 years you will be able to take a two-week holiday as a result. 😁

Brilliant !! thank you soooo much.... you just solved my issue. Really appreciate it.

Go for Joy,

You saved my life as I have been looking for a solution for two weeks... until I found your post. Thank you for posting...

Thanks Go for Joy!

Exactly what I needed!!