Print Settings saved between sessions

[Chris Cooper]

I know exactly what the problem is but I want to know if there is a
workaround for it.
Using Office 2003, a user has Outlook permanently on and the default setting
is to use Word to creating and reading mails.
When she creates a document and prints using Word the printer settings, i.e.
which printer is being used and the printer specific settings such as duplex
are still in effect the next time she starts a new document.
However, if Outlook is closed she can create new documents without any
printing problems.
This is especially annoying as one printer is rarely used, and it is a
hassle if users have to reset to the Windows Default printer everytime they
start a new document.
I know I can disable word as the default mail editor, and this does work as
I have tried it, but I do want to give my users the full use of Office
features.

Does anyone know of any other workaround?

Thanks
Chris

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Chris:

The only other work-around would be to go back a version in Office. Word
2003 was the first to share its settings with the email editor.

In prior versions, even if Word was used as the email editor, it used
different settings for Email (it used Email.dot instead of Normal.dot as its
global template) so the settings remained separate.

I hope Microsoft has now gotten the message that combining the two was NOT
the greatest idea they ever had...

Cheers

On 3/4/06 6:51 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Chris Cooper" <Chris

I know exactly what the problem is but I want to know if there is a
workaround for it.
Using Office 2003, a user has Outlook permanently on and the default setting
is to use Word to creating and reading mails.
When she creates a document and prints using Word the printer settings, i.e.
which printer is being used and the printer specific settings such as duplex
are still in effect the next time she starts a new document.
However, if Outlook is closed she can create new documents without any
printing problems.
This is especially annoying as one printer is rarely used, and it is a
hassle if users have to reset to the Windows Default printer everytime they
start a new document.
I know I can disable word as the default mail editor, and this does work as
I have tried it, but I do want to give my users the full use of Office
features.

Does anyone know of any other workaround?

Thanks
Chris

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