WD98: Print Button Displays Print Dialog Box

Last reviewed: February 17, 1998
Article ID: Q177687

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173707
   TITLE     : 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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications

Additional query words: OFF98 kbcode kbmacro vba
Keywords : kbwordvba macword98 kbprint kbfaq
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbworkaround

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Last reviewed: February 17, 1998
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