You can "print to file" from Money, but the resulting file will not be
something that you will be able to print out using Excel or Word --
unless Money has some option to save its output in Word or Excel
format. As I understand it, "print to file" creates creates a file
that's ready to be printed by a specific printer -- including all of the
printer-specific controls. Generally, files created by "print to file"
are not "understood" by the usual wordprocessing apps (or, I assume, by
Excel). You could try the following:
1. go to the library and find out what make and model of printers they
have
2. go home and install the driver for one of those printers (making
sure you install an XP driver) on your PC. If the library has
relatively new printers, XP will have a driver, otherwise go to the
printer manufacturer's web site and download an appropriate driver.
3. when you get to the Money print dialog, select the printer you just
installed and check the box for "print to file"
4. copy the file to a floppy -- recognizing that if the library's
computer doesn't have WinXP, you may have a problem with reading the
floppy there; see:
http://tinyurl.com/li4a (To save time, before your
first trip to the library, open Notepad, type a few lines, and save the
file to a floppy as test.txt; when you get to the library, put the
floppy in their PC and see if you can open and read your test file in
Notepad; if you can, then all's well; if you can't, read the article
linked above and follow the suggestions there).
5. go back to the library with the floppy with your Money output; get
to a command prompt (aka a DOS window) and type:
copy pathfile name.file name extension LPT port number /b, and then
press ENTER, where:
path is the path to the folder that you want to use to store the file
file name is the name that you want to give the file that you are making
file name extension is the file name extension for the file that you are
making
port number is the number of the printer port that your printer is
using, typically LPT1
For example, if you saved a file on the floppy that is named money.prn,
and the library's printer is connected to LPT1, you would type copy
a:\money.prn lpt1 /b at a command prompt, and then press ENTER.
Good luck -- but you might be better off just buying an inexpensive
printer -- CompUSA has two HP inkjet printers for less than $40 (of
course, you generally get what you pay for, but hp generally makes good
printers).
