Printing my preferred default style - can someone help please.

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Jack Sadie - 24 Sep 2005 23:58 GMT

I am really tired of repeatedly wasting 4 pages with a week to a page
because I have forgotten to change to 1 page with the whole month - I nearly
always wish to print my diary in month to each page view.

Is there some way I can configure the print dialogue so that it always opens
with the monthly style instead of the week to a page.
Thanks,
Jack Sadie

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 25 Sep 2005 00:16 GMT

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| I am really tired of repeatedly wasting 4 pages with a week to a page
| because I have forgotten to change to 1 page with the whole month - I
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| Thanks,
| Jack Sadie

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Jack Sadie - 26 Sep 2005 11:10 GMT

Milly,
Your point is cleverly made and I feel admonished - but not really suitably
admonished - "seldom" is not "always" and I have not lost my urge to bend
the system to my own liking.
After all someone (Lord Bill I always say snidely?) has, in his infinite
wisdom, already decided which view to choose as default. All it needs is the
some technological know-how to modify that default for me in Outlook.
A truly prodigious amount of genius has been applied to make Microsoft Excel
and Word the most customizable programs I know of and I am in awe and
admiration of them. What a shame that doesn't apply to some of the other
programs.
However I thought it might not be beyond the genius of MVP ladies like you
and Diane to devise some solution!! Go on, have a try!
Sincere regards, Jack Sadie

> "There are seldom technological solutions to behavioral problems." -
> Famous
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> | Thanks,
> | Jack Sadie

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 26 Sep 2005 00:10 GMT

Did you try defining your own print style? or use File, page setup to open
the print dialog? Choosing file, print after changing the outlook view to a
month?

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>I am really tired of repeatedly wasting 4 pages with a week to a page
>because I have forgotten to change to 1 page with the whole month - I
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> Thanks,
> Jack Sadie

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Jack Sadie - 26 Sep 2005 11:23 GMT

Thanks for trying but you do not answer my query - I am trying to automate
the process. At the present if I click on "Print" and "OK", without any
intervening button, I get a print of the current displayed date in Weekly
style. What I want is for that process to produce the same but in Month to
a page style.
Defining my own print styles doesn't cause any of them to become the default
style; when I next click on "Print" it still defaults to Weekly style. What
I haven't yet tried is re-defining the named "Weekly style" to produce a
monthly view !!!
Please also see my reply to Milly's kind response.
Jack Sadie

> Did you try defining your own print style? or use File, page setup to open
> the print dialog? Choosing file, print after changing the outlook view to
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>> Thanks,
>> Jack Sadie

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 05 Oct 2005 14:39 GMT

the default format is dependant on the view - if you view 1 day, it defaults
to one day. Choose 30 days, it defaults to one month. Since it defaults to
weekly, you are using the 7day view.

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> Thanks for trying but you do not answer my query - I am trying to
> automate the process. At the present if I click on "Print" and "OK",
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Jack Sadie

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Jack Sadie - 07 Oct 2005 00:04 GMT

Ok thanks. You are indeed correct and I do see the logic of that, but I
honestly thought perhaps the default could be changed using Visual Basic or
the like. Is there a VB newsgroup for Outlook to whom I could address the
query, or is there a wish list?

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Regards, Jack Sadie
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> the default format is dependant on the view - if you view 1 day, it
> defaults to one day. Choose 30 days, it defaults to one month. Since it
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>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jack Sadie

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 07 Oct 2005 14:33 GMT

there is an outlook vba group on this server - if you can't see it, try
msnews.microsoft.com for the server or refresh your view.

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> Ok thanks. You are indeed correct and I do see the logic of that, but I
> honestly thought perhaps the default could be changed using Visual Basic
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>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jack Sadie

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