Printing presets in PPT 2008

[NateGUWO]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In Office 2004, you could establish a printing preset for PPT to use every time you opened a new document. This for some reason is not the case in 2008. We tried to create a printing preset that had for the defaults:

Print What: Handouts (6 Slides per page)
Slide Show: All Slides
Output: Grayscale

I save this as a preset named "PPT"and print the job. When I close out of PPT, I and then re-open it, the preset is saved and shows up in the list but none of my settings are saved. Any thoughts?

 

[NateGUWO]

Well, no responses must mean that no one knows. If anyone reads this and could at least try creating and saving a printing preset in PPT and let me know how that goes. I'm wondering if this is just a bug, or if this is one of the many features that has been removed in Office 2008.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Well, no responses must mean that no one knows. If anyone reads this and could at least try creating and saving a printing preset in PPT and let me know how that goes. I'm wondering if this is just a bug, or if this is one of the many features that has been removed in Office 2008.

Hi,

Sometimes no response means someone else didn't get a chance to try it
until the weekend! This is a forum of Mac PowerPoint users helping each
other. The more who jump into the fray to help answer posted questions,
the better it will be.

The print dialog box is a meeting place for MacOS, the Printer
manufacturer's driver, and the application.

In my case, I have an Epson CX5800F all-in-one printer, and the Epson
print driver is superlative IMHO. I had no problem creating a custom set
of printing preferences, and then using Save As in the Presets pop-up in
the Print dialog box. When I quit PowerPoint and returned, my preset was
there and it worked perfectly.

So in your case I'm thinking that the problem could be that you need to
use Apple's Disk Utility to repair permissions, or perhaps your printer
manufacturer has an updated set of drivers you could install. You'll
find Disk Utility in the Applications > Utilities folder. New drivers
will be found at your printer manufacturer's web site, if they exist.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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