In order to set this up for your printer the driver for the print must be
capable of printing that size. If it's not you're going to wind up having to
"fennagle" something...
Do the layout in a report... go to print setup with the report open and set
the printer and it's properties. You'll probably have to play around, do
some trial & error to get the results, but it should be possible. 200cm is
less than a letter size paper so that might make things a bit easier. After
you get the layout of the report and the printer properties set up to your
satisfaction, save the report and the print settings will be saved with that
report.
If you want to do this from code, you'll need to approach it one of two
ways. For version 2002 and later, MS supplies a relatively easy-to-use
Printer object for manipulating printer properties. Versions 2000 and
earlier you will need to use some APIs. Browse through MVPS.org/access and
you will find that Dev has put together some code for handling the APIs,
though from what I gather it is a rather complicated process. There's plenty
of demos out there for the Printer object, if that works.
Even if your printer driver doesn't support that paper size, you should
still be able to do this by playing around with a report format.
hth
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Jack Leach
www.tristatemachine.com
"I haven't failed, I've found ten thousand ways that don't work."
-Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
