How can I align the 1099 - NEC? The spacing is all wrong

Hi there, susancakebaker.

Thanks for checking this with us. I'm here to help you with your 1099 printing alignment.

To align the 1099 - NEC correctly, you can go to the Fine-tune alignment page to adjust your form alignment. Let me guide you through the steps:

1. Click the Expenses menu then go to the Vendors tab.
2. Select Prepare 1099s, and click on Let's get started/Continue your 1099s.
3. Review or enter the company name and address and the Tax ID then select Next.
4. Choose the box for payment types you made and the expense account you use for these payments then select Next.
5. Review your contractor's information and select Next.
6. Select Finish preparing 1099s.
7. Select Print and mail.
8. Go through the steps in the Select a form type and print a sample page, then select No, it doesn't line up. This option will direct you to the Fine-tune alignment page where you can make horizontal and vertical adjustments to the form alignment.
9. Go through the steps in the Select a form type and print page. Once the form is aligned, click Next. 
10. Click Done.

For additional information, I'm adding this article for more guidance: Create and file 1099s using QuickBooks Online.

You might also want to read this article to learn more about 1099-NEC filing: Set up QuickBooks for the 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC forms.

Please feel free to reach back out if there's anything else you need help with concerning 1099. I'm always here to help.

1099 Alignment: One Solution

Hi, there.  I posted something recently under a different but similar thread, and am reposting it below.  Hopefully this helps!

I was struggling with alignment issues for 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC in QuickBooks Online (could get the top section looking fine but not the bottom section). I found a solution that worked for me. It doesn't make sense to me why it worked, but it did work.

I use non-QuickBooks forms from a large office supply retailer. (Probably what most everyone here is using.) Formerly, when I tried printing a form, I would do it directly from the PDF-viewer box (if that's the right term) in QuickBooks. After a lot of experimenting, I ended up downloading the doc to my computer (by using, of course, the downward arrow in the upper right corner of the PDF-viewer). Once I had it saved to my hard drive, I then opened that file up like any PDF file (with Adobe Acrobat) and printed it. For some reason, the top and bottom sections were now proportional to each other. The alignment was still not yet perfect, but, to fix that, all I had to do was go back into QB and fiddle with the alignment a few times, each time saving the new PDF to my computer and then printing it from Acrobat (not the QB program). (I just adjusted this blindly. For example, if the printing was too low on the page, I simply would then tap the plus sign in the vertical alignment section once or twice, then save, then open, and then print again. Trial and error.) For print settings in Acrobat, the only thing I did was make sure to click "Actual Size" rather than "Fit," etc. under "Page Sizing & Handling." Eventually, I got everything to print perfectly.

Again, no idea why printing from a saved file versus printing directly from the website should suddenly cause the formatting to be correct. I mean, it's the same exact document. But, it worked.

I hope I explained this clearly enough and that it helps someone. I'm not particularly computer savvy; I just have a basic laptop running Windows 10.

God bless!