"No printers are installed" error in Excel when copy a cell

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Hi All,
In Excel whenever I copy (Ctrl+c) an error window displays "No printers are
installed. To install a printer: ..." etc.

After starting the "Print Spooler" service the above message never appears.
I do not have a Printer attached to my (home) computer. And so to save some
resouces I have disabled the "Print Spooler" service.

Is there any alternate way than enabling the "Print Spooler" service?

Thanks for any replies.

Trish
 
Trish said:
Hi All,
In Excel whenever I copy (Ctrl+c) an error window displays "No printers
are
installed. To install a printer: ..." etc.

After starting the "Print Spooler" service the above message never
appears.
I do not have a Printer attached to my (home) computer. And so to save
some
resouces I have disabled the "Print Spooler" service.

Is there any alternate way than enabling the "Print Spooler" service?

Thanks for any replies.

Trish
Click to expand...

I suspect you remapped Ctrl+C to Ctrl+P in Excel. Repost your
question in an Excel newsgroup and ask then how to check your
existing mappings and how to fix them. Remapping standard
Windows shortcuts such as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V is not a
good idea.
 
Is this a worksheet that you copied from another computer
(say, one at work) and are editing on yours?

If so, the info for the printer that existed on the other computer
may be "embedded" in the .XLS file (MS Publisher also does
this) and when it can't find it, it bitches. Not sure why copying
cells would trigger this, but MS programs are inconsistent in many
ways...

Personally, I would just live with the Spooler service running. As I
look at mine, it's only using 5M memory, a fiddling small amt. to
worry about.

Try this:

Create a "Generic/Text Only" printer and set it to print to FILE:
Then set the printer to this device with the File>>Print dialog
in Excel and save the worksheet.

I suspect that you'll need Spooler running to do this too...and if
you are moving stuff back and forth from work, the worksheet
will likely be broken when you try to print it on the work machine
for the same reason - now it can't find the Generic printer.
 
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