WD97: DisplayAlerts=wdAlertsNone Fails to Suppress Print Error

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

When you set the Visual Basic for Applications DisplayAlerts Property equal to wdAlertsNone, you still receive an error message when printing a document whose margins are set outside of the printable region for your printer.

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To prevent the margin error from occurring, you must disable background printing prior to issuing the command to print the document. Once the command to print has completed, you can re-enable background printing.

The following example Visual Basic for Applications macro demonstrates this process:

   Sub TurnOffAlertsAndPrint()
      ' Store current Background Printing setting.
      Dim x As Boolean
      x = Options.PrintBackground
      ' Turn off error messaging and Background Printing.
      Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
      Options.PrintBackground = False
      ' Print the active document.
      ActiveDocument.PrintOut
      ' Turn on error messaging and restore Background Printing
      ' to original setting.
      Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsAll
      Options.PrintBackground = x
   End Sub