Why does Word ignore your default printer?

[Guest]

If you open a Word document, select the print command, choose a DIFFERENT
printer (one different from your "default"), and print the document. Then,
quit Word and re-open it. Word will NOT revert back to your default printer.
It remembers the "non-default" printer you last used. I'm using Office 2003
with Windows XP Pro SP2. Excel DOES NOT behave this way.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, Word does. When you select a different printer, it becomes the active
one for that Word session until you change to a different one. If you want
to be able to print to a specific printer without changing the active
printer (permanently), see http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, Word does. When you select a different printer, it becomes the active
one for that Word session until you change to a different one. If you want
to be able to print to a specific printer without changing the active
printer (permanently), see http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word will reset the printer to Windows default if it is closed and
re-opened. If yours is not doing this, the probability is that you are using
Word as your Outlook editor and Word is still 'open' (Press CTRL+ALT+DEL)
and see if Winword is still running.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Graham Mayor]

Word will reset the printer to Windows default if it is closed and
re-opened. If yours is not doing this, the probability is that you are using
Word as your Outlook editor and Word is still 'open' (Press CTRL+ALT+DEL)
and see if Winword is still running.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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