Encompass Form Failure - How to Fix

When Printing Custom Forms in Ellie Mae Encompass you see Form Failure

With Office 2013 or Office 2016, you may suddenly start seeing failures to print custom forms. The fix is very simple.  There are several things to try.  Before you do this, make sure that Adobe Reader is the default PDF viewer, and the App Compatibility flags are not set.

Delete App Compatibility key

Step 1:

Open Microsoft Word, open a new document in Word, then find the Read Mode and Print Layout buttons in the lower right corner of your Word Document. Press Read Mode, then Press Print Layout.

Press 1, then press 2

Step 2:

Leave Microsoft Word open with a new document open. Print a custom form now. Word will automatically close out.

Conclusion

There are some other things to try.  This other blog entry has more things to try out.  Another fix is to read this too.