Hi All, i have a proceedure that sets up the printer in VBA, but it is
very slow, i know this is a problem but is there any way to speed it up
?

Les Stout

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Don't set commands you don't need to change.

Also, using the excel4 macro version is usually faster. See this past post
by John Green:

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From: John Green )
Subject: About PageSetup..
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.programming
View complete thread (10 articles)
Date: 2001-01-22 12:57:23 PST




PageSetup in VBA has always been a painfully slow process. If you can't
avoid having
to set these parameters, you can use the Excel 4 macro function, PAGE.SETUP
to carry
out most of the PageSetup operations much more quickly. The following two
macros are
almost equivalent, and should give you the clues you need to start using
PAGE.SETUP.
You can download a full description of all the Excel 4 macro functions from
Microsoft's web site:

Sub PS()
ActiveSheet.DisplayPageBreaks = False
With ActiveSheet.PageSetup
.LeftHeader = "My Company"
.CenterHeader = ""
.RightHeader = "&D / &T"
.LeftFooter = "Highly Confidential and Proprietary"
.CenterFooter = ""
.RightFooter = "Finance"
.LeftMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0.54)
.RightMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0.3)
.TopMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0.4)
.BottomMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0.36)
.HeaderMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0.22)
.FooterMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0.17)
.PrintHeadings = False
.PrintGridlines = False
.PrintComments = xlPrintNoComments
' .PrintQuality = 600 ' does not work with all the printers
.CenterHorizontally = True
.CenterVertically = True
.Orientation = xlLandscape
.Draft = False
.PaperSize = xlPaperLetter
.FirstPageNumber = xlAutomatic
.Order = xlDownThenOver
.BlackAndWhite = False
.Zoom = False
.FitToPagesWide = 1
.FitToPagesTall = 1
End With
End Sub

Sub PS4()
head = """&LMy Company&R&D / &T"""
foot = """&LHighly Confidential and Proprietary&RFinance"""
pLeft = 0.54
pRight = 0.3
Top = 0.4
bot = 0.36
head_margin = 0.22
foot_margin = 0.17
hdng = False
grid = False
notes = False
quality = ""
h_cntr = False
v_cntr = False
orient = 2
Draft = False
paper_size = 1
pg_num = """Auto"""
pg_order = 1
bw_cells = False
pscale = True
pSetUp = "PAGE.SETUP(" & head & "," & foot & "," & pLeft & "," & pRight &
","
pSetUp = pSetUp & Top & "," & bot & "," & hdng & "," & grid & "," & h_cntr
& ","
pSetUp = pSetUp & v_cntr & "," & orient & "," & paper_size & "," & pscale
& ","
pSetUp = pSetUp & pg_num & "," & pg_order & "," & bw_cells & "," & quality
& ","
pSetUp = pSetUp & head_margin & "," & foot_margin & "," & notes & "," &
Draft & ")"

Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro pSetUp
End Sub

John Green (Excel MVP)
Sydney
Australia


--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Les Stout" wrote in message
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Hi All, i have a proceedure that sets up the printer in VBA, but it is
very slow, i know this is a problem but is there any way to speed it up
?

Les Stout

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Hi Tom, i did try this it worked great actually but did not know how to
set the sheet to Landscape in the code it indicates a number "1" but
still prints portrait and doesn't change no matter what number i put in,
i also need it to print on 1 page wide but many long ? Do you have any
suggestions ?

best regards,

Les Stout

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