Hi All,

(Running Office 2003 on XP Pro workstations, SBS 2003 server, Active
Directory domain).

I've noticed that if you tell Excel to print multiple copies of a workbook,
it sends the same document to the printer multiple times - i.e., for 3
copies of "MyWorkbook1.xls", I get 3 entries in the print queue for that
same document.

If I do the same in MS Word, it just sends the document once with a copy
count of 3.  This makes printing Excel documents frustratingly slow, as the
printer goes through initialisation routines each time a new document is
sent to it.

Why did MS do it this way?  Is it a bug?

Thanks,
Alex Clark