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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
I just installed Word 2000 on my laptop. The installation went perfectly
smoothly, and everything works just as it should - except that in Page Setup/Paper Size the only option is "Custom". Nothing else is available. I've never known this happen before. What have I done wrong, and how can I fix it? Many thanks. Bert |
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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
Install a compatible printer driver and set as the Windows default.
-- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message et... I just installed Word 2000 on my laptop. The installation went perfectly smoothly, and everything works just as it should - except that in Page Setup/Paper Size the only option is "Custom". Nothing else is available. I've never known this happen before. What have I done wrong, and how can I fix it? Many thanks. Bert |
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Terry Farrell wrote:
Install a compatible printer driver and set as the Windows default. Ah, thank you. Yes, my laptop doesn't have any printer drivers installed at all, but it would never have occurred to me that not having a printer installed would have that particular effect. Bert |
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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
Word gets all its page setup information from the printer driver.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Bert Coules" wrote in message et... Terry Farrell wrote: Install a compatible printer driver and set as the Windows default. Ah, thank you. Yes, my laptop doesn't have any printer drivers installed at all, but it would never have occurred to me that not having a printer installed would have that particular effect. Bert |
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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
You are fortunate that Word even starts without a printer. Word uses the
printer driver to lay out the document on screen so that it closely resembles the printed output. Normally, no printer, no Word. Terry "Bert Coules" wrote in message et... Terry Farrell wrote: Install a compatible printer driver and set as the Windows default. Ah, thank you. Yes, my laptop doesn't have any printer drivers installed at all, but it would never have occurred to me that not having a printer installed would have that particular effect. Bert |
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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
Terry and Suzanne,
Thanks for the answers. I use a laptop for working on documents when I'm away from home, to modify and resave them for transferring back to my main PC: no need of a printer there. And in fact, I can't recall the last time I printed a major Word file at home either: all my drafting and editing is done onscreen, not from hard copy, and once a MSS is in a submittable form, off it goes by email to a publisher or producer. At a pinch I could live without a printer altogether. But I still need page setup, and I can't believe I'm the only one who works that way. As someone remarked in an answer to an earlier question of mine, "Word doesn't do logic". Bert |
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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
Bert Coules wrote:
Terry and Suzanne, Thanks for the answers. I use a laptop for working on documents when I'm away from home, to modify and resave them for transferring back to my main PC: no need of a printer there. And in fact, I can't recall the last time I printed a major Word file at home either: all my drafting and editing is done onscreen, not from hard copy, and once a MSS is in a submittable form, off it goes by email to a publisher or producer. At a pinch I could live without a printer altogether. But I still need page setup, and I can't believe I'm the only one who works that way. As someone remarked in an answer to an earlier question of mine, "Word doesn't do logic". Bert Would installing one of the free pdf printer drivers work for page setup in Word? Ann |
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Would installing one of the free pdf printer drivers work for page setup
in Word? My impression - which might be completely wrong - is that any printer driver would have done. I used the one for my desktop printer, which I'm pretty certain will never, ever, be connected to the laptop; which seems like a waste of space and resources, or would if the program didn't require it. But hey, it works now; that's the main thing. Bert |
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Paper size - no options listed, only "Custom"
The one to use, if you want to know what the document will look like when
you ultimately do print it, is the driver for the printer you'll ultimately print it on, because documents can be formatted slightly differently depending on what printer driver is selected. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Bert Coules" wrote in message et... Would installing one of the free pdf printer drivers work for page setup in Word? My impression - which might be completely wrong - is that any printer driver would have done. I used the one for my desktop printer, which I'm pretty certain will never, ever, be connected to the laptop; which seems like a waste of space and resources, or would if the program didn't require it. But hey, it works now; that's the main thing. Bert |
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