Report Printing Backwards

[John F Kappler]

I have an Access '97 database that runs alternately on two different
systems, one Win'98 SE, the other Win XP Pro.

I just moved the .mdb file back to the XP machine (which I do from
time to time) but this time its major output, a report, has started
behaving unusually in that its insisting on printing the pages in
reverse order. As these are numbered serially its a bit of a pain.

This time the report was 52 pages long, and it started by doing 52,
51, etc. Then I tried printing only pages 1 to 15, but it insisted on
doing them 15, 14, 13, etc.

I don't thikn its the printer, cos when it starts printing much of the
file is still in the print queue.

I also don't think its the printer driver, cos its the same driver (to
the same printer) on both systems and its never done it before.

That leaves properties on the report. I've searched around and cant
find a property that might do this. I know sometimes print properties
get reset when moving a database from one system to another, but cant
find this one.

Any ideas pls,

TIA,

JohnK

 

[Rick Brandt]

I have an Access '97 database that runs alternately on two different
systems, one Win'98 SE, the other Win XP Pro.

I just moved the .mdb file back to the XP machine (which I do from
time to time) but this time its major output, a report, has started
behaving unusually in that its insisting on printing the pages in
reverse order. As these are numbered serially its a bit of a pain.

This time the report was 52 pages long, and it started by doing 52,
51, etc. Then I tried printing only pages 1 to 15, but it insisted on
doing them 15, 14, 13, etc.

I don't thikn its the printer, cos when it starts printing much of the
file is still in the print queue.

I also don't think its the printer driver, cos its the same driver (to
the same printer) on both systems and its never done it before.

That leaves properties on the report. I've searched around and cant
find a property that might do this. I know sometimes print properties
get reset when moving a database from one system to another, but cant
find this one.

Check your printer driver settings again. Many drivers offer the option to
print in reverse order and it would be a per-user setting.