"You must install a printer..." error.

[DaveJHPT]

Hi All

I have a report in Access 2000 which has its printer set to Adobe Writer 5.0 which has now been removed from my machine. I get the message "You must install a printer before you design, print or preview" when I try to open the report.

How can I change the printer setup on the report without opening it?

(Have searched for similar posts, but unsuccessfully.)

Dave

 

[Pat Hartman]

You need to set up a new default printer using Windows. Access cannot render a report unless it knows what printer will be used. Once you change the default printer, you may need to tweak the report margins. If you don't have a printer attached to your PC, select the generic printer driver just so Access has something to work with.

 

[DaveJHPT]

Thanks.

I just had a closer look at my printers setup, and although I have several printers set up on my machine, none of them was set to be the default! I set one as default and all works fine now.

Thanks again.

Dave