WD98: Print Button Displays Print Dialog Box Instead of Printing Document (177687)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
This article was previously published under Q177687

SYMPTOMS

When you click the Print button on the Standard toolbar, the Print dialog box is displayed (instead of your document being printed using the default printer settings).

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, you can create a macro to print your document without displaying the Print dialog box. You can then assign the macro to a toolbar button.

The following macro prints the active document using the default printer Values: 
   Sub DefPrint()
      ActiveDocument.PrintOut
   End Sub
For more information about adding macros to toolbars, menus, or keystrokes: from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type "add toolbar keyboard menu command," click Search, and then click to view the appropriate topic.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:6/17/2005
Keywords:kbbug kbprint KB177687
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