VB bug printing Word 97 borders programatically

[emhunter]

This bug occurs when printing Microsoft Word documents using document automation (Visual Basic) with Screenupdating turned OFF ("false&quot. Documents which have paragraph borders (underling/overlining as used in headers and headings etc.) print without the paragraph borders. The problem appears confined to paragraph borders and does not appear to affect table or character borders. Turning screen updating ON causes borders to be correctly printed but slows execution.

When batches of documents are to be printed, programmatic printing with screenupdating "off" speeds the proces markedly (especially when large or complex documents are stored on a server), but with a concomitant reduction in document fidelity.

1) This occurs on all Windows NT PCs with Word 97 and networked printers at my site. Does this happen on your system?

2) If you know how to prevent the screen from updating whilst still printing paragraph borders correctly, I would be pleased to hear about it.

3) Bug report was submitted to Microsoft a week ago, but no response. (Should I be surprised?)


Example macro:
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Sub PrintOne()
'
' PrintOne Macro
' Macro written 07/10/02 by EMHunter
'
Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'Comment this line to allow borders to print or set to "True"
If Documents.count > 0 Then
    Application.PrintOut FileName:="", Range:=wdPrintCurrentPage, Item:= _
        wdPrintDocumentContent, Copies:=1, Pages:="", PageType:=wdPrintAllPages, _
        Collate:=False, Background:=False, PrintToFile:=False
End If
End Sub

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Don't feel bad. That same bug (or something like it) is still with word2k. I would suggest to improve speed is to copy the file locally, spawn your process, wait for your process to terminate, then kill local copy (if necessary).

Good Luck