Microsoft KB Archive/114368

= OLE Objects Resize When the Default Printer Is Changed =

Article ID: 114368

Article Last Modified on 1/14/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Works 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q114368



SUMMARY
If an object-linking-and-embedding (OLE) object is pasted into a Works document and the Windows default printer is changed, the object may change size by as much as 30 percent. This size change will occur as soon as the object is selected and the links are updated.

If you return to the original default printer (the default printer in use when the object was first pasted), the object will not return to the original size automatically.

This problem can be especially apparent when changing the default printer from a printer driver to a fax driver.



WORKAROUND
To return the object to its original size with the original default printer:
 * 1) Select the object.
 * 2) From the Edit menu, choose Links.
 * 3) Select Update Links.



MORE INFORMATION
This behavior is by design. Some OLE servers render an OLE object differently, depending on the current printer. When you change the default printer, the system asks all OLE objects that care about the printer to update themselves (which may cause a size change). The object changes size after it was first pasted because the initial object is the screen version of the object, and all updates to the object are the printer version.

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