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Trini - 10 Nov 2007 21:43 GMT

I have a trial version that I just downloaded about two weeks ago. It caused
my previous version to no longer work and my disc to reinstall is corrupted.
It is now locked and will not let me do anything. It did not lock until I
finally put the code in and now I can no longer type. I am a student and a
professional educator so I am highly frustrated with this problem. Can
someone please help me quickly?

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Chris - 11 Nov 2007 00:41 GMT

Hi

I have a a macro running in Word 2003 to print a label on a networked label printer, by
switching to the label printer, print the label (with some formatting) and then switch
back to the default printer (also networked). All works well except the macro takes 25
seconds to complete. By stepping through the macro I find that the commands that take all
the time are

Application.ActivePrinter = LabelPrinter (switch to label printer)
ActiveDocument.PrintOut Copies:=nNumberCopies, Range:=sPrintRange, Background:=False
Application.ActivePrinter = strActivePrinter (switch to default)

I have found that same problem on another computer where the printers are directly
connected and not on a network. Here only the Application.ActivePrinter statements were
slow.

The PC is a Dual core with 2 GB RAM and a large hard disk.

Has anyone any ideas on how to speed up this macro?

Thanks

Chris

Adelaide

Australia

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 11 Nov 2007 01:12 GMT

Make sure that you have the printer drivers installed on the local machine
and are not using a driver that is installed on the network somewhere.

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Chris - 11 Nov 2007 01:29 GMT

For the standalone PC drivers are on the PC.

> Make sure that you have the printer drivers installed on the local machine
> and are not using a driver that is installed on the network somewhere.

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Chris - 12 Nov 2007 08:47 GMT

For the standalone PC drivers are on the PC. Does anyone else have any ideas why the
macro goes slowly at statementApplication.ActivePrinter =

Chris

Make sure that you have the printer drivers installed on the local machine
and are not using a driver that is installed on the network somewhere.

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Russ - 13 Nov 2007 05:55 GMT

Chris,
Like Doug said, make sure you install all the printer drivers that you are
using, on the (local) machine that is running the code, otherwise there will
be a delay when running that code.

> For the standalone PC drivers are on the PC. Does anyone else have any ideas
> why the
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Chris - 13 Nov 2007 10:47 GMT

Thanks for this suggestion but even when the printer drivers the macro is still slow - 15
seconds to do a little formatting swap printers print and swap printers back.

Chris

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 11 Nov 2007 01:10 GMT

See the KnowledgeBase article "How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing
Microsoft Software or Hardware" at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[ln];326246

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>I have a trial version that I just downloaded about two weeks ago. It
>caused
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> professional educator so I am highly frustrated with this problem. Can
> someone please help me quickly?

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