Printing to paper trays

I have posted this problem to the PAge Layout forum but I
first encountered it with VBA.

I am having a problem with paper trays, re the following:
- in a new document type some text, put in a next page
section break and type some text on page 2 (section 2)
- In File, Page Setup choose Tray One for first page and
Tray Two for the other pages, making sure you've got
apply to Whole Document seleceted
- if you then print the document, both pages come from
tray 1!!.
If you look in File Page, Setup again it has first page
from tray 1 and other pages from tray 2 for This Section,
but if you change it to Whole Document no trays are
selected. If seems to print the first page of each
section from tray 1 and the rest of the pages from each
each section from tray 2. As each section only has 1 page
they all print from tray 1.
Is this true and how do I get around it?

This VBA code seems to do the same thing as manually
changing the trays in Word:

ActiveDocument.PageSetup.FirstPageTray =somecode working
out tray
ActiveDocument.PageSetup.OtherPagesTray = somecode
working out tray

Jonathan
Fri Sep 24 03:52:03 CDT 2004

Hi David

For all sections except the first, set both the first page tray and the
other pages tray to the same tray.

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"David Price" <djprice@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:10d401c4a1ae$cedb0c60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have posted this problem to the PAge Layout forum but I
> first encountered it with VBA.
>
> I am having a problem with paper trays, re the following:
> - in a new document type some text, put in a next page
> section break and type some text on page 2 (section 2)
> - In File, Page Setup choose Tray One for first page and
> Tray Two for the other pages, making sure you've got
> apply to Whole Document seleceted
> - if you then print the document, both pages come from
> tray 1!!.
> If you look in File Page, Setup again it has first page
> from tray 1 and other pages from tray 2 for This Section,
> but if you change it to Whole Document no trays are
> selected. If seems to print the first page of each
> section from tray 1 and the rest of the pages from each
> each section from tray 2. As each section only has 1 page
> they all print from tray 1.
> Is this true and how do I get around it?
>
> This VBA code seems to do the same thing as manually
> changing the trays in Word:
>
> ActiveDocument.PageSetup.FirstPageTray =somecode working
> out tray
> ActiveDocument.PageSetup.OtherPagesTray = somecode
> working out tray
>
>

David
Fri Sep 24 04:52:56 CDT 2004

I have written some code to get around it, as you
suggest, but I think it is a bug ,or at the very least, a
misleading option in Word. I now have options for - Whole
Doc, This Section Only and Each Section Separately. The
Each Section Separately option is what Word calls Whole
Doc and my Whole Doc option is just the first page of the
first section from First page tray.


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi David
>
>For all sections except the first, set both the first
page tray and the
>other pages tray to the same tray.
>
>--
>Regards
>Jonathan West - Word MVP
>www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk
>Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>"David Price" <djprice@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:10d401c4a1ae$cedb0c60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have posted this problem to the PAge Layout forum
but I
>> first encountered it with VBA.
>>
>> I am having a problem with paper trays, re the
following:
>> - in a new document type some text, put in a next page
>> section break and type some text on page 2 (section 2)
>> - In File, Page Setup choose Tray One for first page
and
>> Tray Two for the other pages, making sure you've got
>> apply to Whole Document seleceted
>> - if you then print the document, both pages come from
>> tray 1!!.
>> If you look in File Page, Setup again it has first page
>> from tray 1 and other pages from tray 2 for This
Section,
>> but if you change it to Whole Document no trays are
>> selected. If seems to print the first page of each
>> section from tray 1 and the rest of the pages from each
>> each section from tray 2. As each section only has 1
page
>> they all print from tray 1.
>> Is this true and how do I get around it?
>>
>> This VBA code seems to do the same thing as manually
>> changing the trays in Word:
>>
>> ActiveDocument.PageSetup.FirstPageTray =somecode
working
>> out tray
>> ActiveDocument.PageSetup.OtherPagesTray = somecode
>> working out tray
>>
>>
>
>.
>

Jonathan
Fri Sep 24 05:08:14 CDT 2004


"David Price" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06c601c4a21c$448a39f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have written some code to get around it, as you
> suggest, but I think it is a bug ,or at the very least, a
> misleading option in Word. I now have options for - Whole
> Doc, This Section Only and Each Section Separately. The
> Each Section Separately option is what Word calls Whole
> Doc and my Whole Doc option is just the first page of the
> first section from First page tray.

By most reasonable definitions, this wouldn't be classified as a bug, since
I'm sure it is working as Microsoft designed it. But there is certainly a
deficiency in the way the dialog describes what it is doing


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Jonathan West - Word MVP
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