Word wont remember page layout

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Donald Wyllie

I'm importing regatta results into Word and want Word to
remember its printer settings. I have set the printer to
Landscape in Win XP. I set page layout in Word to Landscape
and adjust the margins. I set these to default- also tried
not setting to default. Print my results close Word. Run
the next race, import the results and Word has forgotten
the page layout settings. The output from the scoring
program is HTML. I don't use Frontpage 'cos I can't get
pagebreaks to stop cutting lines of text. I want to print
output not publish to the web. What am I doing wrong?
 
The settings you mention are associated with documents, not with Word
itself. Create a new template with the page setup as you need it, then
create your documents based on that template.
 
Hi Donald.

When you create a new document, Word ignores the portrait/landscape
setting in Printer Properties; instead, Word uses the portrait/landscape
setting in your normal.dot template. You probably don't want to change
normal.dot to landscape, because that can cause lots of other problems.

If I were you, I would create a landscape-orientation template for your
regatta results and saving the template to your User Templates
directory. Then when you open Word, close the default blank document,
and create a new document (File | New) based on your regatta template.
See http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm
for more about creating custom templates.

I also suggest that you change the Printer Properties setting back to
portrait. Once you set the paper orientation to landscape in Word, Word
will know how to make the printer print that way.
 
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