WD2000: Visual Basic Example to Print Current Page

ID: Q211452

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Word, you can create a macro to print only the current page (the page where the insertion point is located).

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The Visual Basic for Applications macro instruction to print the current page is:


ActiveDocument.PrintOut Range:=wdPrintCurrentPage

The following VBA macro over-rides the FilePrint dialog and sets the default print range to Current Page:


Sub FilePrint()
With Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrint)
    .Range = 2
    .Show
End With
End Sub

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: kbmacro vba vbe

Keywords : kbmacro kbprg kbdta kbdtacode wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto