If I understand what you're saying, it will only behave stubbornly if it *has* a printer embedded. If not, it will behave properly. Terrific! That's easy-enough code to write.

Thanks for the ideas. I was really dreading the alternative.

Scott

>>Correct me if I am wrong, but it really only has to be done once, just before you do the final compile of the app that you are going to distribuate(sp?). If you were clever (and I am NOT) you could probably even make a hook in the project so that on build, it will open all the .frx's and zap those fields.
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>>>Todd...
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>>>Well, that's what I was afraid of. :) We're heading down that path, but I was hoping to avoid it.
>>>
>>>Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>>Scott,
>>>>
>>>>There have been a few articles kicking around about this. Basically, you need to use the .frx as a table and delete the contents of the "tag" fields.
>>>>
>>>>>A clarification:
>>>>>
>>>>>To summarize: If an FRX fails to find *its* default printer in the current workstation's set of defined printers, it will print to the default Windows printer and ignore the setting of SET("PRINTER", 3).
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>You also have to "ZAP" the printer info in the "Expr" field.
>
>If you create a report with a particular printer this is what you may get:
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>
>DRIVER=winspool
>DEVICE=Brother MFL Pro Printer
>OUTPUT=LPT2:
>ORIENTATION=0
>PAPERSIZE=9
>COPIES=1
>DEFAULTSOURCE=7
>PRINTQUALITY=600
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>Now if you use A4 and the client wants to print on Letter, the report prints on A4 irrespective.
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>What you need to do is zap "tag" and "tag2" completely and for "Expr"
>keep only stuff you require - I keep only the orientation where 0 - portrait and 1 = landscape.
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>I have a form that i use just before a compile which allows me to select a directory and does the work for me in a few seconds as compared to hours if you have 100+ reports to fix.
>
>Can email if you need and you can change to your needs.
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>Now the orientation is taken from the report and other settings like page length etc from the printer settings which is as it should be.
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>Hope this helps
>
>Bernard