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In past versions I would set the printer settings for a document and it would remember it so reprints default to the last used settings. How do I set Word 2013 to do the same?
In particular I like to use double sided printing.
Thanks.
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If you want to set duplex printing as the default, change the settings for the printer driver (using the Devices and Printers applet in Control Panel). I believe this has been suggested previously in this thread, but it is unclear if you have actually tried it.
That has nothing to do with it, I only used the VM to check Word 2003 had the Print tab in the Options dialogue - the one some people insist never existed.
I came to find the solution, not debate the problem.
Clearly the options for duplex printing are no longer available in Word which is a shame.
Aha!
It is the VM that is remembering state when you shut down the VM normally! Not Windows, not Word!
Try 2013 in a VM.
No, I'm afraid you're mistaken. Word retains (some) settings in the Print dialog (notably the choice of an active printer and its properties) during a given Word session, but restarting Word resets everything to the Windows defaults. I've been using Word since Word for Windows 2.0, and this has always been the case.
A month on and this is still a problem, people in the office are sending documents to be printed only to find the wrong settings are used, returning to their desks, changing the settings to their requirements, printing again, walking back to the printer to collect their print again.
In recent years office communities have been persuaded to use as little paper and energy as possible. A printer probably represents the most resource hungry device, in our case each floor has a Toshiba eStudio 6550, one of the larger machines yet economical with features such as wake-up on lan.
It is nothing short of appalling that Word 2013 is responsible for such waste, not just paper and time but the additional power consumption too.