want to keep a page from printing

[Billie]

I am working on a form for which I would like to include
instructions on the use of the form on the first page, but
I don't want the instructions to print.

Is there any way to keep the first page from printing
without selecting the page range in Print? Unless the
page is automatically supressed, my workers will never
take the time to actually go into Print to keep the page
from printing that way.

Thank you!

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Billie,

You can write macros to intercept the Print commands (two of them, one from
the menu and one from the toolbar button) as explained at
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm. In the
FilePrint macro, you'd need to .Display (not .Show) the print dialog, and
use the info from the dialog to do an ActiveDocument.PrintOut, supplying a
print range that excludes the instruction page. In the FilePrintDefault
macro, you just do the PrintOut.