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How to use the default Windows printer in Visual FoxPro

Article ID: 138396

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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This article was previously published under Q138396

SUMMARY

The Report Writer in Visual FoxPro saves specific printer settings in the .frx file. Sometimes, a user may want the report to always print to the default Windows printer.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps will remove specific printer settings from the report file:

Open the report as a table:
```
   USE MYREPORT.FRX
						
```

Locate the record that holds the printer information:

   LOCATE FOR Objtype = 1 AND Objcode = 53

Remove the printer settings:

   REPLACE Tag  WITH ""
   REPLACE Tag2 WITH ""
   REPLACE Expr WITH ""

Close the report table:
```
   USE
						
```

At this point, the printer settings have been removed, and REPORT FORM will always print to the default Windows printer.

REFERENCES

For more information about controlling the printer for a report, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

133163 How To Control Printer Attributes for a Report at Run Time

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