No Office Printers Available Via Excel 2000

[Poppy64]

Currently we have a temp working for us with a laptop which runs Excel 2000 on top of ME. (Usually I support Office 97 on top of NT so this is already fun...!) Using one of our laptops in (unfortunately) not an option.

I installed two of our networked printers as local ports and then installed the ME drivers for those particular printers.

These printers work OK in Word & PowerPoint (both MS2000 versions) however in Excel, when you try to print, there are no printers available via File - Print (except his home printer). If you click on the Properties button it says that the pc may be low on memory so try closing applications or the driver needs reinstalling.

I have set Vitual Memory to be managed by the machine and still no joy (no other apps open when I tried printing except Excel) and surely if the drivers were dodgy then Word/PowerPoint would not print?

Has anybody got any ideas apart from reinstalling the drivers (which I am doing tomorrow when user is free).

Any help appreciated. Thank you.

Poppy64

 

[Rob2806]

Send an e-mail with a file to be printed as an attachment to the computer that can print the file.

 

[Poppy64]

For anyone else with this problem...I found that setting the required printer as default via the Printers folder first then going to Excel and choosing File - Print showed details of the printer BELOW the empty drop down list (in the grey area).

Print as normal and it does print out on required printer.

Not ideal - it is disconcerting when there is no printer in the drop down list so you auotmatically go looking for it and get error messages/warnings.

However as long as you can see details of the printer, you should be ok when you print.

Poppy64