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tfoster - 12 Jan 2006 14:38 GMT

My colleague and I have run into an issue with Excel holding its print
properties on our network. We all print to mailboxes. If someone forwards
an Excel document as an email attachment and the receiver tries to print it,
it prints to the sender's mailbox. It is the same scenario if the Excel file
is placed on our file server. When the file is opened by another person and
printed, it prints to the mailbox of the person who placed it on the file
server. Now, this is not always the case. Sometimes it will take the print
settings fine and other times Excel seems to be saving its print settings
along with the file. Any suggestions?

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David McRitchie - 13 Jan 2006 14:55 GMT

Try using file, print if you are using the print Icon.
Please provide feedback in newsgroup.
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My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
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> My colleague and I have run into an issue with Excel holding its print
> properties on our network. We all print to mailboxes. If someone forwards
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> settings fine and other times Excel seems to be saving its print settings
> along with the file. Any suggestions?

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tfoster - 13 Jan 2006 22:34 GMT

That doens't work either.

> Try using file, print if you are using the print Icon.
> Please provide feedback in newsgroup.
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> > settings fine and other times Excel seems to be saving its print settings
> > along with the file. Any suggestions?

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David McRitchie - 13 Jan 2006 23:17 GMT

when you go to file, print do you see your printer in the name dropdown.

Also look at Windows Start, Settings, Control Panel, Printers to see
if your printer is there and is not messed up. You may have to cancel
previous output.

"tfoster" <tfoster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message...

> That doens't work either.

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tfoster - 14 Jan 2006 04:11 GMT

I don't think you are understanding my problem. I know that the printer is
installed and working correctly. My problem is that when an Excel file is
transferred from one computer to another via email or a file server, it
prints to the original owner's mailbox on the printer. It seems that somehow
the print settings are being saved and transferred within the file. Is there
any way to stop this?

> when you go to file, print do you see your printer in the name dropdown.
>
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> "tfoster" <tfoster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message...
> > That doens't work either.

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David McRitchie - 14 Jan 2006 06:03 GMT

Here is someone with the same problem (Excel 2003, Outlook mailbox) but
no resolution. View thread still shows only the one posting.thought it might
help with search arguments -- see below
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.misc/msg/1b1a6a7e7483ce9d

Mailbox and other printer-specific settings are saved with an Excel file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829766

if that doesn't work there are a lot of hits for Google web search with
(if not 2003 try using your own version of Excel)
excel printing mailbox network 2003 site:microsoft.com

off hand from a cursory look, you might make sure that your Excel is up to date
before continuing look for "check for updates" at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

> I don't think you are understanding my problem. I know that the printer is
> installed and working correctly. My problem is that when an Excel file is
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> > "tfoster" <tfoster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message...
> > > That doens't work either.

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