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There is a very cheap app out there called Tray Selector which solves this problem. There is a free 30 day trial available at http://www.trayselector.com. It allows you to setup lots of pre-set printing methods in Word and put a nice button icon next to them in the ribbon bar.

Check it out.

I have set up a letter in Word 2010, with pre-printed letterhead as page 1, a section break next page, then different margins and plain paper on all subsequent pages.

To print the letter, I have set up a macro, as follows:

With ActiveDocument.PageSetup
.FirstPageTray = 256
.OtherPagesTray = wdPrinterUpperBin
End With

ActiveDocument.PrintOut Range:=wdPrintAllDocument

where paper tray code ‘256’ selects the printed paper in Tray 4 and ‘wdPrinterUpperBin’ selects plain paper from Tray 1.

This does NOT work. The first page AND the second page both come out of the ‘FirstPageTray’ (Tray 4). Subsequent pages then come out on plain paper from the ‘OtherPagesTray’ (Tray 1).

If I print the document manually, setting ‘Paper’ in ‘Page Setup’ to take the first page from the printed letterhead tray (Tray 4) and all subsequent pages from the plain paper tray (Tray 1), it also does NOT work, printing the first two pages from the printed paper tray, just like the macro.

I would be very grateful if someone took pity on me (and my few remaining strands of hair not yet pulled out) and tell me how to get this rather simple task to work.

Regards
useful