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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[thefink]

I came across this same problem with Word XP.
I installed new computers and suddenly this issue arose from nowhere!
When you change the print settings from the Word print dialog the changed settings remain even after closing Word. This only occurs in Word and not in other Office applications.

The problem comes from Outlook, something most people have open all day. When you use Word as your e-mail editor than Winword.exe is never closed even when you think it is! When I turned this off the problem went away immediately.

I hope this helps some of the people with similar problems.