default printer

[bj]

ISTR that in Word 2003 just clicking the print icon on the toolbar would
print using the default (or most recently used?) printer.

Now I'm using 2007. Still under XP.
I have a QA bar with printer icon but it just brings up the printer dialog
box. Is there a way to have quick-print, without having to keep selecting
the printer if you're just using the same one, as there used to be?
bj

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Perhaps you have customized the QAT? It would seem you must have because
Quick Print is the default QAT button; to get a button that opens the Print
dialog, you would have to have added it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Terry Farrell]

Add the Quick Print command to the QAT.

 

[bj]

Thank you.
I had added the regular print icon instead of quick print. I didn't know
about quick-print & was doing the customizing from the 'all commands' list
as several things I wanted weren't on the short-lists (most popular? or
whatever) -- and since they're listed alphabetically q-p isn't near the
'print' choice. If you don't know something exists it's hard to go looking
for it.

I've got *most* of Word07 working the way I want but do keep finding
landmines. Things that work *sort of* the way they used to but have been
<bleeping> "improved" -- and either don't have (because MS thinks you
shouldn't want it & *certainly* should do it that way) or I can't find a way
to make them work IMO "properly". I've been doing a lot of brute-force
managing these past few months just to get simple tasks done.
<grump mode off>

Thanks again.
bj

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My point was that you shouldn't have to add Quick Print to the QAT, as it is
one of the buttons that is on the QAT by default.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[bj]

Well, either I deleted it by mistake early on, or some gremlin stole it.

Since I only stumbled across the QAT because I saw an article about it come
to my user-group editor's article file offering, I was just glad to have
*anything* to help me get the job done; I still have beaucoup trouble with
the Ribbon -- I don't seem to think the MS way.
Thanks.
bj

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The only way I actually know that it's on there by default (aside from the
fact that I wouldn't have added it, I think) is that it's shone (a version
of it, anyway) in the "Welcome to the 2007 Microsoft Office system" guide at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/05/31/611552.aspx or
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/jatwood/archive/2006/07/28/Microsoft_Office_2007_Cheatsheet.aspx,
which I keep on my copy stand because it has a screen shot of the Ribbon
that I find helpful for reference in helping users.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Dave Symes]

I don't seem to think the MS way.

Quite a lot of folks, me included, have that problem...
This last incarnation of Word (7) will be my last. I shall still have to
use it for work stuff, but that ribbon thing is beyond a joke... I shan't
be purchasing any more versions.

All I can say is... Good job this NG exists, otherwise I'd have disposed
of Word 7 a few weeks after purchasing it.

So at least thanks for the NG and the advice therein folks.
Dave

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word 7 came out in 1994 (Word for Windows 95). The one with the Ribbon is
Word 2007.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Dave Symes]

Word 7 came out in 1994 (Word for Windows 95). The one with the Ribbon
is Word 2007.

Yup! I know, and I realised it about 30 seconds after posting... ;-)

Such is life. Bwaaaaa!

But I still don't like the ribbon... ~

Dave

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Many people don't.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[bj]

As we used to say in my Bridge group --
"Who dealt this mess?"
bj