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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
I've just downloaded the Office 2007 trial and I see Word is even more
infuriating than before when it comes to printing. Word 2000 always used to override the printer driver settings with whatever settings were stored with the documents, but so long as you knew this you could sort it out by clicking 'Printer setup' on the Tools menu. How the hell do I do this now? There's no tools menu, and as far as I can see, no Printer Setup anywhere. I have a Canon IP4200 printer with two paper trays. I keep the Auto Sheet feeder topped up with scrap paper, stuff that's already been printed on one side, for printing things I won't want to keep. The clean paper goes in the tray, and this is set as default. Word 2007 insists on printing to the Auto Sheet Feeder. This is only with new documents. If I load and old document created in Word 2000 it behaves itself. I just don't know, with this new-fangled Ribbon thing, where I go to tell Word to use the printer driver settings rather than its own. Help, anybody? |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
OK, never mind. I found it. It was on the Layout tab, in the Page Setup
dialog. For some reason when I originally posted, the Page Setup group was greyed out and I couldn't get the dialog up. Don't know why but is seems OK now. "Rojo Habe" wrote in message ... I've just downloaded the Office 2007 trial and I see Word is even more infuriating than before when it comes to printing. Word 2000 always used to override the printer driver settings with whatever settings were stored with the documents, but so long as you knew this you could sort it out by clicking 'Printer setup' on the Tools menu. How the hell do I do this now? There's no tools menu, and as far as I can see, no Printer Setup anywhere. I have a Canon IP4200 printer with two paper trays. I keep the Auto Sheet feeder topped up with scrap paper, stuff that's already been printed on one side, for printing things I won't want to keep. The clean paper goes in the tray, and this is set as default. Word 2007 insists on printing to the Auto Sheet Feeder. This is only with new documents. If I load and old document created in Word 2000 it behaves itself. I just don't know, with this new-fangled Ribbon thing, where I go to tell Word to use the printer driver settings rather than its own. Help, anybody? |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
The default paper tray (and other settings) are stored in the Printer Driver
settings in Windows. If you need one button access to different settings then the easy way to achieve this is to install the printer in Windows twice. Set the defaults of one to print in draft from the Top feed and the other set to print in High Quality from the tray: then use Rename to call one driver PrintHi and the other to PrintLow (or similar names to distinguish them easily). Set one of these to be the Windows Default printer. Now when you print in Word, Word will use the default unless you specifically choose the other. But note that Word will only 'remember' your choice for the Word Session. It will default back to the Windows Default next time you use it. So the best solution is to add two print buttons to your QAT, one set for each printer. Then you have true one button print to whichever tray you want. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Rojo Habe" wrote in message ... I've just downloaded the Office 2007 trial and I see Word is even more infuriating than before when it comes to printing. Word 2000 always used to override the printer driver settings with whatever settings were stored with the documents, but so long as you knew this you could sort it out by clicking 'Printer setup' on the Tools menu. How the hell do I do this now? There's no tools menu, and as far as I can see, no Printer Setup anywhere. I have a Canon IP4200 printer with two paper trays. I keep the Auto Sheet feeder topped up with scrap paper, stuff that's already been printed on one side, for printing things I won't want to keep. The clean paper goes in the tray, and this is set as default. Word 2007 insists on printing to the Auto Sheet Feeder. This is only with new documents. If I load and old document created in Word 2000 it behaves itself. I just don't know, with this new-fangled Ribbon thing, where I go to tell Word to use the printer driver settings rather than its own. Help, anybody? |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... choose the other. But note that Word will only 'remember' your choice for the Word Session. It will default back to the Windows Default next time you use it. So the best solution is to add two print buttons to your QAT, one set for each printer. Then you have true one button print to whichever tray you want. No. It doesn't. Whatever is in the Page Setup dialog will override your default printer settings. This is stored with the document. |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... choose the other. But note that Word will only 'remember' your choice for the Word Session. It will default back to the Windows Default next time you use it. No. It doesn't. Whatever is in the Page Setup dialog will override your default printer settings. This is stored with the document. |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
What is stored in Page Setup is the tray selection, not the printer.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Rojo Habe" wrote in message ... "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... choose the other. But note that Word will only 'remember' your choice for the Word Session. It will default back to the Windows Default next time you use it. No. It doesn't. Whatever is in the Page Setup dialog will override your default printer settings. This is stored with the document. |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
Rojo Habe wrote:
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... choose the other. But note that Word will only 'remember' your choice for the Word Session. It will default back to the Windows Default next time you use it. No. It doesn't. Whatever is in the Page Setup dialog will override your default printer settings. This is stored with the document. What you are arguing about is not what Terry suggested - see also http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm which shows how to use different printer drivers and settings by macro in any Word version. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Word 2007 ignoring printer driver settings
Sorry everyone. I didn't mean to start an argument. Tray selection was
indeed the issue in the first place and I misunderstood what Terry was trying to tell me. As you can see from my second post, I found what I was looking for and am happy to continue in this manner. Thanks for all your input. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Rojo Habe wrote: "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... choose the other. But note that Word will only 'remember' your choice for the Word Session. It will default back to the Windows Default next time you use it. No. It doesn't. Whatever is in the Page Setup dialog will override your default printer settings. This is stored with the document. What you are arguing about is not what Terry suggested - see also http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm which shows how to use different printer drivers and settings by macro in any Word version. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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