Printing to paper trays

[David Price]

I have posted this problem to the PAge Layout forum but I
first encountered it with VBA.

I am having a problem with paper trays, re the following:
- in a new document type some text, put in a next page
section break and type some text on page 2 (section 2)
- In File, Page Setup choose Tray One for first page and
Tray Two for the other pages, making sure you've got
apply to Whole Document seleceted
- if you then print the document, both pages come from
tray 1!!.
If you look in File Page, Setup again it has first page
from tray 1 and other pages from tray 2 for This Section,
but if you change it to Whole Document no trays are
selected. If seems to print the first page of each
section from tray 1 and the rest of the pages from each
each section from tray 2. As each section only has 1 page
they all print from tray 1.
Is this true and how do I get around it?

This VBA code seems to do the same thing as manually
changing the trays in Word:

ActiveDocument.PageSetup.FirstPageTray =somecode working
out tray
ActiveDocument.PageSetup.OtherPagesTray = somecode
working out tray

 

[Malcolm Smith]

I have written countless print modules which live in a start-up template
for various firms around the UK and what I do is that I control the
printing to the various trays in various printers depending on which
printer they are going to and also which document type is used.

For example, a letter may have the front sheet going out from one tray
with the letter head and the rest of the letter going out from the
continuation paper tray whilst copies of the letter and also things like
faxes go out from the plain paper.

It would be best to have some code written to handle this.

- Malc
www.dragondrop.com

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi David

For all sections except the first, set both the first page tray and the
other pages tray to the same tray.

 

[David Price]

I have written some code to get around it, as you
suggest, but I think it is a bug ,or at the very least, a
misleading option in Word. I now have options for - Whole
Doc, This Section Only and Each Section Separately. The
Each Section Separately option is what Word calls Whole
Doc and my Whole Doc option is just the first page of the
first section from First page tray.

 

[Jonathan West]

I have written some code to get around it, as you
suggest, but I think it is a bug ,or at the very least, a
misleading option in Word. I now have options for - Whole
Doc, This Section Only and Each Section Separately. The
Each Section Separately option is what Word calls Whole
Doc and my Whole Doc option is just the first page of the
first section from First page tray.

By most reasonable definitions, this wouldn't be classified as a bug, since
I'm sure it is working as Microsoft designed it. But there is certainly a
deficiency in the way the dialog describes what it is doing