Default Printer Settings

[Amanda Harding]

Help!!!
When I print from a Word document and change the settings e.g. to a
different tray and then open a new document the settings don't change
back to default. They do in Excel, please help it's driving me mad!!
Amanda

 

[Jon Weaver]

Amanda,
When you select a printer (or change the default tray, etc.) from within
Word, you make it the
active printer with those settings for the current Word *session.*

Just quit Word and restart it, the Windows default printer with the default
settings will be used. Whatever changes you made in the previous session
will be gone.


Jon

 

[KathyF]

Even when I leave Word and re-enter, my default printer settings are lost. I do have a default printer set up and all other Office products seem to work fine. In Word, when I click on print or hover over the printer icon, there is no default printer. Any ideas why?

KathyF

 

[RS]

Amanda,

Microsoft confirms this to be a problem but they have a solution too.

'Setting the printer
'do not use Word.Application.ActivePrinter = "Name of the printer you want"
'It sets the printer to the systems default and we do not want that
'Use wordbasic instead
Word.Application.WordBasic.FilePrintSetup _
Printer:="Name of the printer you want", _
DoNotSetAsSysDefault:=1

This changes the printer on the active document and not the default!

So this should resolve your issue...

Good luck

RS