URGENT Need custom printing help!

My client has a law office where just about everyone has a printer of their
own for quick printing and doing envelopes. However, they also have a
multi-function enterprise class copier (MFC for short) with multiple paper
trays that will be used for printing to letterhead and stationary. And I
need help with setting it so Word will select the printer based upon the
type of paper being printed on.

Or, failing that, a way to direct a template to print to only one specific
printer.

What I'm trying to accomplish is this. I want to leave the users' default
printer set to their local printer because the envelope wizard assumes the
default printer when you print envelopes, yet have a template for printing
on letterhead that prints ONLY to the MFC.

As it is, I have a template drawn up with an invisible empty header on the
first page to accomodate the letterhead and the page setup is set to print
page 1 from Tray 3 and subsequent pages from Tray 4. The problem is that
the users have to switch their default printer before using the template or
opening a document based on the template, otherwise the template reverts
back to tray 1 on the local printer

Can anyone help me figure out a way to direct this template to use a
specific printer? I've heard you can do it with VB scripting, but I know
nothing about VB. You can find a sample of the letterhead template at
www.phydeux.com/downloads.

Intercept the print commands in your templates. Make sure to restore the
previous settings at the end of your macros or else you will end up printing
everything to your network printer during the Word session.

See the article on intercepting commands on the vba FAQ on the MVP FAQ site.

BTW, this is really off-topic for most of the newsgroups you posted in. The
most appropriate one probably would have been
microsoft.public.word.setup.networking.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Phydeux" wrote in message
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My client has a law office where just about everyone has a printer of
their
own for quick printing and doing envelopes. However, they also have a
multi-function enterprise class copier (MFC for short) with multiple paper
trays that will be used for printing to letterhead and stationary. And I
need help with setting it so Word will select the printer based upon the
type of paper being printed on.

Or, failing that, a way to direct a template to print to only one specific
printer.

What I'm trying to accomplish is this. I want to leave the users' default
printer set to their local printer because the envelope wizard assumes the
default printer when you print envelopes, yet have a template for printing
on letterhead that prints ONLY to the MFC.

As it is, I have a template drawn up with an invisible empty header on the
first page to accomodate the letterhead and the page setup is set to print
page 1 from Tray 3 and subsequent pages from Tray 4. The problem is that
the users have to switch their default printer before using the template
or
opening a document based on the template, otherwise the template reverts
back to tray 1 on the local printer

Can anyone help me figure out a way to direct this template to use a
specific printer? I've heard you can do it with VB scripting, but I know
nothing about VB. You can find a sample of the letterhead template at
www.phydeux.com/downloads.

I know nothing about writing macros, any chance you can point me to a primer
on it, or maybe help me with writing one? I'm more of a systems person than
a coder I'm afraid.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Intercept the print commands in your templates. Make sure to restore the
previous settings at the end of your macros or else you will end up
printing
everything to your network printer during the Word session.

See the article on intercepting commands on the vba FAQ on the MVP FAQ
site.

BTW, this is really off-topic for most of the newsgroups you posted in.
The
most appropriate one probably would have been
microsoft.public.word.setup.networking.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Phydeux" wrote in message
...
My client has a law office where just about everyone has a printer of
their
own for quick printing and doing envelopes. However, they also have a
multi-function enterprise class copier (MFC for short) with multiple
paper
trays that will be used for printing to letterhead and stationary. And
I
need help with setting it so Word will select the printer based upon the
type of paper being printed on.

Or, failing that, a way to direct a template to print to only one
specific
printer.

What I'm trying to accomplish is this. I want to leave the users'
default
printer set to their local printer because the envelope wizard assumes
the
default printer when you print envelopes, yet have a template for
printing
on letterhead that prints ONLY to the MFC.

As it is, I have a template drawn up with an invisible empty header on
the
first page to accomodate the letterhead and the page setup is set to
print
page 1 from Tray 3 and subsequent pages from Tray 4. The problem is
that
the users have to switch their default printer before using the template
or
opening a document based on the template, otherwise the template reverts
back to tray 1 on the local printer

Can anyone help me figure out a way to direct this template to use a
specific printer? I've heard you can do it with VB scripting, but I
know
nothing about VB. You can find a sample of the letterhead template at
www.phydeux.com/downloads.