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WORD "forgets" default network printer
Well, maybe "forget" is the wrong term to describe what is happening.
I am using MS WORD 2003 SP3, on an HP-Compaq 5100 running Windows XP SP2. I've set my default printer in Windows to be a networked HP LaserJet 4050 PCL 6. All of my Office apps remember the default printer, but whenever I load WORD, it hangs saying the printer isn't responding, do I want to wait? I click "No", then I go into the print menu and reset the blank printer line to the default printer. What is causing this behavior? Is there something in my Office or Windows setup that is incorrect? I clicked through several WORD menus and cannot find an option to set the default printer, other than in the Print menu, where I tell it which printer to use. But the next time I load WORD, I get the same error. None of my other applications (Office or otherwise) gets such an error (waiting on the default printer). |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when
I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote in message ... Well, maybe "forget" is the wrong term to describe what is happening. I am using MS WORD 2003 SP3, on an HP-Compaq 5100 running Windows XP SP2. I've set my default printer in Windows to be a networked HP LaserJet 4050 PCL 6. All of my Office apps remember the default printer, but whenever I load WORD, it hangs saying the printer isn't responding, do I want to wait? I click "No", then I go into the print menu and reset the blank printer line to the default printer. What is causing this behavior? Is there something in my Office or Windows setup that is incorrect? I clicked through several WORD menus and cannot find an option to set the default printer, other than in the Print menu, where I tell it which printer to use. But the next time I load WORD, I get the same error. None of my other applications (Office or otherwise) gets such an error (waiting on the default printer). |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
On Apr 25, 9:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. Yes, now that you mention it, I think it happens to me the next time I load WORD after printing to PDF. I'll have to pay more attention next time to see if there is a relationship. I'm using Adobe 8 Pro -- I don't recall this being a problem with Adobe 7. |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
I'd be happy to blame Adobe. g
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote in message ... On Apr 25, 9:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. Yes, now that you mention it, I think it happens to me the next time I load WORD after printing to PDF. I'll have to pay more attention next time to see if there is a relationship. I'm using Adobe 8 Pro -- I don't recall this being a problem with Adobe 7. |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
If you print to the Adobe driver, as opposed to using the add-in tools to
create the PDF, there is a tendency to set Adobe PDF as the default printer driver. You can overcome this by using a macro to 'print' the document (see below) and restore the default printer, but it shouldn't happen if you create pdfs from the add-in tools and the add-in provides additional functionality so it is advisable to use it anyway. Sub PrintAdobe() Dim sPrinter As String sPrinter = ActivePrinter ActivePrinter = "Adobe PDF" Application.PrintOut ActivePrinter = sPrinter End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote: On Apr 25, 9:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. Yes, now that you mention it, I think it happens to me the next time I load WORD after printing to PDF. I'll have to pay more attention next time to see if there is a relationship. I'm using Adobe 8 Pro -- I don't recall this being a problem with Adobe 7. |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
I would expect more than a "tendency" to set Adobe PDF as the active (not
default) printer in Word, as that's the way Word works: whichever is the MRU becomes the active printer for that Word session. But the problem at hand is the one of having *no* printer set as the default or active printer in Word (even though one *is* set as the Windows default). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you print to the Adobe driver, as opposed to using the add-in tools to create the PDF, there is a tendency to set Adobe PDF as the default printer driver. You can overcome this by using a macro to 'print' the document (see below) and restore the default printer, but it shouldn't happen if you create pdfs from the add-in tools and the add-in provides additional functionality so it is advisable to use it anyway. Sub PrintAdobe() Dim sPrinter As String sPrinter = ActivePrinter ActivePrinter = "Adobe PDF" Application.PrintOut ActivePrinter = sPrinter End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote: On Apr 25, 9:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. Yes, now that you mention it, I think it happens to me the next time I load WORD after printing to PDF. I'll have to pay more attention next time to see if there is a relationship. I'm using Adobe 8 Pro -- I don't recall this being a problem with Adobe 7. |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
I have been checking further and the behaviour I reported is inconsistent,
but ties in with what the OP says. Creating PDF files from Acrobat 8.1.2 in Word (2003) will frequently set the *default* printer as Adobe PDF not merely the ActivePrinter. This can be verified by the check mark against the Adobe driver in the Print dialog. Thus when Word is restarted the Adobe printer remains the current printer. As luck would have it, whilst making these further checks, I found that the add-in also caused the behaviour. However it doesn't always do so and I haven't noticed the problem occurring in Word 2007. It would do so consistently earlier this afternoon, and it also switched off the Acrobat toolbar, but since opening Normal.dot and ensuring that the toolbar was displayed before resaving normal.dot it has been working correctly. The following macro addresses the issue of the default printer when used to print to the Adobe driver, but this has no bearing on the problem with the add-in. Acrobat's add-ins are a strange breed Sub PrintAdobe() Dim sPrinter As String With Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrintSetup) sPrinter = .Printer .Printer = "Adobe PDF" .DoNotSetAsSysDefault = True .Execute Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrint).Show .Printer = sPrinter .DoNotSetAsSysDefault = False .Execute End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I would expect more than a "tendency" to set Adobe PDF as the active (not default) printer in Word, as that's the way Word works: whichever is the MRU becomes the active printer for that Word session. But the problem at hand is the one of having *no* printer set as the default or active printer in Word (even though one *is* set as the Windows default). "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you print to the Adobe driver, as opposed to using the add-in tools to create the PDF, there is a tendency to set Adobe PDF as the default printer driver. You can overcome this by using a macro to 'print' the document (see below) and restore the default printer, but it shouldn't happen if you create pdfs from the add-in tools and the add-in provides additional functionality so it is advisable to use it anyway. Sub PrintAdobe() Dim sPrinter As String sPrinter = ActivePrinter ActivePrinter = "Adobe PDF" Application.PrintOut ActivePrinter = sPrinter End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote: On Apr 25, 9:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. Yes, now that you mention it, I think it happens to me the next time I load WORD after printing to PDF. I'll have to pay more attention next time to see if there is a relationship. I'm using Adobe 8 Pro -- I don't recall this being a problem with Adobe 7. |
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WORD "forgets" default network printer
Yuck. I'm glad I have only Acrobat 6, I think!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I have been checking further and the behaviour I reported is inconsistent, but ties in with what the OP says. Creating PDF files from Acrobat 8.1.2 in Word (2003) will frequently set the *default* printer as Adobe PDF not merely the ActivePrinter. This can be verified by the check mark against the Adobe driver in the Print dialog. Thus when Word is restarted the Adobe printer remains the current printer. As luck would have it, whilst making these further checks, I found that the add-in also caused the behaviour. However it doesn't always do so and I haven't noticed the problem occurring in Word 2007. It would do so consistently earlier this afternoon, and it also switched off the Acrobat toolbar, but since opening Normal.dot and ensuring that the toolbar was displayed before resaving normal.dot it has been working correctly. The following macro addresses the issue of the default printer when used to print to the Adobe driver, but this has no bearing on the problem with the add-in. Acrobat's add-ins are a strange breed Sub PrintAdobe() Dim sPrinter As String With Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrintSetup) sPrinter = .Printer .Printer = "Adobe PDF" .DoNotSetAsSysDefault = True .Execute Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrint).Show .Printer = sPrinter .DoNotSetAsSysDefault = False .Execute End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I would expect more than a "tendency" to set Adobe PDF as the active (not default) printer in Word, as that's the way Word works: whichever is the MRU becomes the active printer for that Word session. But the problem at hand is the one of having *no* printer set as the default or active printer in Word (even though one *is* set as the Windows default). "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you print to the Adobe driver, as opposed to using the add-in tools to create the PDF, there is a tendency to set Adobe PDF as the default printer driver. You can overcome this by using a macro to 'print' the document (see below) and restore the default printer, but it shouldn't happen if you create pdfs from the add-in tools and the add-in provides additional functionality so it is advisable to use it anyway. Sub PrintAdobe() Dim sPrinter As String sPrinter = ActivePrinter ActivePrinter = "Adobe PDF" Application.PrintOut ActivePrinter = sPrinter End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote: On Apr 25, 9:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see this occasionally. I don't get an error message loading Word, but when I go to print, I'm told that no printer is selected. At one point I think I figured out what was causing it, but I can't remember whether it was a matter of starting Word before Windows was quite through loading all the startup apps or that it happened after creating a PDF (cause of many other issues) or what. Yes, now that you mention it, I think it happens to me the next time I load WORD after printing to PDF. I'll have to pay more attention next time to see if there is a relationship. I'm using Adobe 8 Pro -- I don't recall this being a problem with Adobe 7. |
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