While trying to print some Microsoft Solutions Framework
documents, the page numbers get messed-up when printing the Word
document. Instead of getting ‘Page 2 of 21’ for
example, the printer would print ‘Page 2 of 2’, ‘Page 3 of 3’,
etc., all the way to page 21. The solution (or so it appears) is
simple: Disable the ‘Background colors and images’ option in Word’s
Options menu:

If that doesn’t work, try checking the ‘Reverse
print order’ option. However, this option is highly annoying as all
your pages will print in the wrong order.
I found these solutions in an MSDN
article for Word 2000. You’d think this would’ve been
fixed in Word 2003. :-(