I have designed a report to fit on A3 paper.

That was fine until the database was housed on a PC with only an A4 printer.

Printing is irrelevant as the database actually distributes the reports as a snapshot by e-mail, nothing is actually printed.

So how come MSAccess has no intrinsic idea of paper size and has to adopt those of the printer the PC is connected to.

By the way, the printer has no A3 option or 'custom' option.

Can I output an A3 snapshot irrespective of printer settings ?

You can define printers on a system that are never actually attached to the system and then use that printer for your reports.

Huuummmm, sounds interesting, also sounds complicated.

I've gone for the cheats ( swift ) option and redesigned the form to fit on A4.

Thanks.

At least you have a solution. Thanks for post back.