Hi Fernando

My experience is that Word behaves funny. I believe it checks what is default when it is installed or first used. Afterwards it only check its own setting, and won't change unless you change it or the Words default printer are not present anymore. But I don't know this for sure, it's only my guess.

>Hi again,
>
>I just made a test using SetDefaultPrinter API call to set the default printer.
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>It worked fine and set the default printer to the one I specified, as could be checked in Control Pannel/Printers, but when I activate Word, open a document and tell it to print it, the printout goes to other printer: the one that appears in Word's print options dialog. If I do the same (open a document a try to print it) with Notepad, it works as expected: to the just set default printer.
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>What am I missing?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fernando
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Doing a search in messages area I saw both methods (shown below) for doing that. There is one that works better, or is recommended?
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>>Assuming:
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>>cPrinterName = "PDF995"
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>>Method 1:
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>>Declare Integer SetDefaultPrinter In WINSPOOL.DRV String @pPrinterName
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>>SetDefaultPrinter (@cPrinterName)
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>>Method 2:
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>>oSetDefPrinter = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
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>>oSetDefPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter(cPrinterName)
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>>Release oSetDefPrinter
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>>TIA,
>>
>>Fernando