Hi Fernando,

My experience has been that after you setup a new default printer, if you select the new default printer in Word once, then it will continue to default to the new printer from that point on.

>Hi again,
>
>I just made a test using SetDefaultPrinter API call to set the default printer.
>
>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.
>
>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?
>>
>>Assuming:
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>>cPrinterName = "PDF995"
>>

>>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