#How to change default printer ms word code#

It takes a few minutes to set up, but think of all the time you would be wasting modifying each new document. You can save time and frustration by modifying the Normal.dotx template, which is what Word uses for all new blank documents.

This can get rather annoying and cumbersome. Then you opened it up again, and made the same changes again - and again, and again, and again. You probably didnвЂ™t like the default font or the spacing, but you just changed it and got on with the business of work. Either way, having this in a retry-loop is more robust.ДЄctivePrinter = activePrinter.Think about the first time you opened Word after a version upgrade. Sometimes Word fails, so needs to be restarted. Public virtual void PrintToSpecificPrinter(string fileName, string printer)

#How to change default printer ms word code#

the code below assumes this was set beforehand should be a singleton instance of wrapper for Word

Read the comments in the code, they matter. Lastly, if you consider the exception handling odd (or just poor design by throwing Exception) - remember I'm trying to put together parts of code from many places (while also leaving out our own custom types). Also, this DocWrapper class is a merging of many separate parts of the code - forgive the disorder. I tried to focus on the code that is related to what you are asking. You'll note that certain delicious bits of code are absent from this. It may not be as bad now as it was then ( dynamic was not an option for us), but it's still a good idea. If you haven't done so already, I heavily suggest building your own wrapper classes to deal with all the mundane work bits of _Document and _Application. ) Дoc.Application.ActivePrinter = 'name of printer' Д«ut, we found this highly unreliable! Read on for more details: (actually, we quit changing it back because nothing else was expecting any particular default printer, so it didn't matter). So what we did in place of that was change the system's default printer to what we wanted, print all the documents that we wanted on that computer, then change it back to what it was before. It may be that things have changed dramatically since we first did our work in this area, but we were unable to find any way to print to a specific printer.

You have to change the default printer to what you want to use. TL DR You can't print to a specific printer. After searching around I found .Application.ActivePrinter which is a settable string property that the documentation says takes 'the name of the active printer', but I don't know what it means for a printer to the the 'Active Printer', especially when I have two of them. I need to have a config setting drive which printer and tray are used. Document doc = (ref fileObject, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing) Дoc.PrintOut(oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing) MemoryStream documentStream = getDocStream() ДЇileInfo wordFile = new FileInfo('c:\test.docx') I have code like this: .Application word = new .Application() This seems like such a simple need, but for some reason I cannot find how I can accomplish this.