If you open a Word document, select the print command, choose a DIFFERENT
printer (one different from your "default"), and print the document. Then,
quit Word and re-open it. Word will NOT revert back to your default printer.
It remembers the "non-default" printer you last used. I'm using Office 2003
with Windows XP Pro SP2. Excel DOES NOT behave this way.

Well, Word does. When you select a different printer, it becomes the active
one for that Word session until you change to a different one. If you want
to be able to print to a specific printer without changing the active
printer (permanently), see http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm

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"TM@OUTLAW" wrote in message
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If you open a Word document, select the print command, choose a DIFFERENT
printer (one different from your "default"), and print the document.
Then,
quit Word and re-open it. Word will NOT revert back to your default
printer.
It remembers the "non-default" printer you last used. I'm using Office
2003
with Windows XP Pro SP2. Excel DOES NOT behave this way.

Word will reset the printer to Windows default if it is closed and
re-opened. If yours is not doing this, the probability is that you are using
Word as your Outlook editor and Word is still 'open' (Press CTRL+ALT+DEL)
and see if Winword is still running.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



TM@OUTLAW wrote:
If you open a Word document, select the print command, choose a
DIFFERENT printer (one different from your "default"), and print the
document. Then, quit Word and re-open it. Word will NOT revert back
to your default printer. It remembers the "non-default" printer you
last used. I'm using Office 2003 with Windows XP Pro SP2. Excel
DOES NOT behave this way.