Let me try this reply again and if it posts twice I apologize but I'm not seeing it.  I'm running Windows 10 with  2021 Quickbooks Pro Contractor's edition.  I only upgrade every other year and had just upgraded to 2021 a month or so ago.  I don't understand at all why turning on payroll would be required when talking about NEC's.  I upgraded everything as far as fixes and was able to print the report and do all of that but when it came down to the actual printing it was still printing 2 to a page.  I don't think we should be required to upgrade Quickbooks versions and spend an additional $500+ just to do this.  The fixes should be included in whatever version you're running IMO.  I finally just gave up and sent the info to our accountant as that will cost much less than paying to turn on payroll and paying again to upgrade to 2022 version of Quickbooks.  There's not that many updates and features to even make that worthwhile.  Good luck!!!  We're fast running out of time to get the 1099's done.