Avoiding a dialog box in Word (Word97)

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I have macro to print a document in Word 97. I want to print beyond the margins reported by Word. When printing, one gets the dialog box “The margins of section1 are outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue? Yes/No”. As I always wnat to continue, is they any way, the dialog box can be avoided or have “Yes” automatically pressed.

VBA prints using ActiveDocument.PrintOut Copies:=nNumberCopies, Range:=sPrintRange, Pages:=sPages
or similar commands.

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Chris, I have successfully used the following code to avoid a warning that a selected worksheet is about to be deleted in MS Excel 97 through to MS Excel 2002. It might be what you could try.

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Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Delete
Application.DisplayAlerts = True

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So that any other wanted messages are not missed, I usually turn on the display alerts after the action I do not want the user to see on screen.
HTH, Leigh

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Thanks Leigh,

I tried the commands you suggested and Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone, but unfortunately I still receive the dialog box. According to the Help this should work for “certain alerts and messages”. Unfortunately, this dialog box is not one of the boxes.

Any other ideas?

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Hi All

I have just found a solution at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/Ou…intableArea.htm%5B/url%5D. It seems that one has to turn off background printing : Background:=False .

I do not know why this is so, but it does work. Thanks Leigh for the initial direction

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Thanks Chris

I put that link with a list of handy pieces of info I store about VBA.

Leigh

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Thank you Chris – I’ve just spent an hour trying to figure this out.

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