I got past this, but I am not really sure what sequence made things finally
click again. I was so tired by the time I found the right combination that I
was punch-drunk. I think this was the sequence that finally worked for me:
I disconnected the printer from the PC & uninstalled the printer driver. I
uninstalled MS-Office [this was the 2nd or 3rd-time doing so that night].
Rebooted. Reinstalled MS-Office - again. Rebooted. Updated all MS-Updates.
Rebooted. Reinstalled printer driver from CD, reconnected printer, went to
MS-WORD and set default printer to the newly re-installed printer. Rebooted.
Excel and other things finally recognized the installed printer again. You
might be able to get things cooking again without the uninstall/re-install of
MS-Office. I was not able to do so, but others I talked to later were able
to do so. Hope this helps!
The key was getting MS-WORD to set the real printer as the default. Until
that happened, The printer control panel could not set, nor display, the real
printer as the default print device. Once MS-word set the default, then real
printer showed as the MS-Windows default printer in the printer control panel.
I cannot prove it, but I suspect an earlier update of Adobe Reader from 8 to
9 may have been the registry corrupting action. I hate to kick a "dog" when
it is down, but I do not have any other plausible explanation.
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KenE
Somewhere between NEWBIE & TECHNOFREAK
pjcintc said:
Well Ken, Nutrino
I have the same problem. It's with excel 2007. I've changed drivers,
re-installed printers, etc, etc. I can print with all of my other programs
-- not excel 2007.
I'm not sure but, I think that I once could and "lost" it -- I think that I
re-installed excel 2007 to make it work then. I'm not wanting to try that
again because I might screw something else up.
I still think it's a bug. I have Windows Vist.
pjcintc
KenE said:
Did you ever receive any help on this issue? I have the same thing on my PC.
Excel 2002 cannot find any of the 3 installed printers on my Vista Ultimate
64 PC - but all other Office 2002 applications can print without any issue.
Only Excel tells me there are no printers installed. Something happened [to
registry ?] last night. Before then, I had no issues with printing.
Microsoft Knowledge Base is no help at all on this issue. Neither was a web
search. All I have left now is hopefully a Tech Repoublic reply. Thanks.
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KenE
Somewhere between NEWBIE & TECHNOFREAK
nutrino said:
Oops. I mean its not about drivers in my reply to Bob. I had already tried by
reinstalling drivers. I did not help. To me it then looked like Excel problem
before posting the problem here.
:
I wonder if this is your problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291298
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HTH,
Barb Reinhardt
:
Hi
I got a problem in printing excel sheet. When I try to print or even see
print preview an ms excel sheet it gives an error 'No printers are
installed'. However, no such problems with other documents like ms word(.doc,
.docx) or notepad (.txt) or others. Im using Office 2007 and I did not have
such problems before. I did not use excel for about a month and now I see
this problem. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
