I have a printer in my office that handles letter size paper only, and one
down the hall that handles legal. Is it possible to tell Word to print to
my printer for letter and automatically switch to the other for legal?

Thanks

No. Word can store paper tray settings with a document, but not a printer
selection.

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I have a printer in my office that handles letter size paper only, and one
down the hall that handles legal. Is it possible to tell Word to print to
my printer for letter and automatically switch to the other for legal?

Thanks

If you're familiar with programming in VBA, you can write a macro that looks
at the paper size (and be aware that this is a property of each separate
section, not of the whole document, unless there's only one section) and
uses the code in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...CurPrinter.htm to
select the proper printer. Because the name of the printer is hard-coded
into the macro, this is going to be specific for your circumstances, and
will need to be updated if either printer is replaced.

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Jay Freedman
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Wowbagger wrote:
I have a printer in my office that handles letter size paper only,
and one down the hall that handles legal. Is it possible to tell
Word to print to my printer for letter and automatically switch to
the other for legal?

Thanks

See http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm for a possible workaround.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Wowbagger wrote:
I have a printer in my office that handles letter size paper only,
and one down the hall that handles legal. Is it possible to tell
Word to print to my printer for letter and automatically switch to
the other for legal?
Thanks