Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I did not help.

I only have one printer and it is the "Default Printer" in the Control
Panel. It has a big black check mark next to it.

So I am clear, this problem ONLY occurs in Word. Excel prints fine, Outlook
(calendar and email) print fine. Notepad prints fine. What I mean by fine
is that I do not have to select a default printer before printing.

Is there some .ini setting or registry setting that I can adjust to solve
this problem?

Jeff

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Make sure the printer is selected as the default in Windows Control Panel |
Printers.

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"Jeff W" Jeff wrote in message
...
After upgrading to Office XP (From 2000), My Word program does not see the
default printer (I only have one printer). When I go to print a document
for
the first time (after starting Word), I get an error message that states
that
I have no printer installed (or selected). I select my printer (click,
set
as default) and it prints. As long as I do not close Word I'm okay but if
I
do and restart Word again later, I have to do it all again.

I thought it was an XP/Office XP problem but Excel XP works fine as so do
notepad and the printer test.

I do not see any updates and I have searched the knowledge base for hints.

Any ideas would be appreciated.