I reiterate: No version of Word has ever been able to store a printer
selection with the document. Word always uses the Windows default printer at
startup. When you change the printer setting for a given document, that
printer becomes the active printer for the remainder of the Word session
unless you change it again. You can store tray settings with a document, but
not the printer. Microsoft Publisher does store this information.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"cheesemike" wrote in message
...
Picked up this thread as I now have a version of Word which does not
retain
printer settings when a document is saved wheras previous versions used to
and htey were standard as sold by Microsoft - Office developer XP pack and
previously office 95, and were off the shelf packs and not customised in
any
way.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
As Doug says, this ability was due either to the presence of a custom
add-in
or macros or to the fact that the word processor being used was
WordPerfect
(which I believe can store the printer selection). It has never been
possible in off-the-shelf Word.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Admin Asst." wrote in message
...
My other offices have all had versions of Word that would save printer
settings for each document just by clicking the save button on the
toolbar. I
used to be able to click on that and it would save all settings for
that
document, then when I opened another doc,(or even that same doc) it
would
have it's own settings and I could just click the print button on the
tool
bar and it would print with it's own printer settings. No need to
reset
or
make macros, templates or anything. Just click the save button and the
print
button. It was that easy. I miss the good old days.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
No previous version of Word can do this, either. And you don't need
to
create a new macro for every document, just for each template.
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Admin Asst." wrote in message
news
Thanks Jay, I guess Microsoft just upgraded me right out of biz. I
dont
want
to have to build macros everytime I need to print a new document.
Gonna try to downgrade my version of Word. Wish me luck.
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:17:03 -0800, "Admin Asst." Admin
wrote:
My printer settings default to the next doc printed. How do I
get
each
doc
to keep it's own printer settings in MSWORD 2003?
Sorry, that isn't something Word can do. There's no place in the
file
structure to store printer settings.
If you make a separate template for each kind of document, you
can
create a macro named FilePrint in each template to intercept the
Print
command (and one named FilePrintDefault if you also want to
intercept
the toolbar button). In that macro you can set the printer
settings
for that kind of document and then kick off the print dialog. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...tSavePrint.htm
for
information.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org