Word 2004 may insist on using the default printer. - microsoft.public.mac.office.word

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From: denis.pe...@nyu.edu (Denis Pelli)
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Subject: Re: Word 2004 may insist on using the default printer.
Date: 19 Nov 2004 23:56:08 -0800
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In article <9f84c0af.0411181846.7fb4d...@posting.google.com>,
 denis.pe...@nyu.edu (Denis Pelli) wrote:

Word 2004 assumes that you've used System Preferences to set "Print &
Fax:Selected printer in Print Dialog:" to "Last printer used". In that
case Word 2004 works fine. However, if you instead selected a
particular printer in System Prefences, then the Word 2004 print
dialog misleadingly allows you to select a printer other than that
default, but subsequently ignores your new selection and prints to the
default printer anyway. The work-around is to use System Preferences
to set the default printer to "Last printer used", as Word 2004
assumes. (Word X works correctly with any setting.)

On Nov 19, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Ron Walcik wrote:

I suspect it's something in your set up. I'm running the same versions
of Word and OS X both at home and in a 30 computer lab at work and all
31 machines work correctly. If I/we select a printer other than the 
default, the print job goes to the selected printer and does not
revert
to the default printer.

Ron Walcik
Killeen, Texas
rwal...@vvm.com

dear ron

thanks for writing. i'm not sure that we're talking about the same
thing. to experience this problem you must go to System Preferences
and set "Print & Fax:Selected printer:" to a specific printer instead
of the usual "Last printer used" setting. Basically, Mac OS X offers
two user-interface modes for printing. In the usual "Last printer
used" mode the "default printer" follows your lead; it changes every
time you use a new printer. The alternative is to have a stable
default. In that case you can temporarily override the default, but,
the next time you print, it reverts to the pre-existing default. Word
2004 fails to temporarily override the fixed default.

does that help?

best

denis