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You cannot use page setup properties in Excel if no printers were installed

Article ID: 291298

Article Last Modified on 1/2/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q291298

For a Microsoft Excel 2000 version of this article, see 213516.

For a Microsoft Excel 98 version of this article, see 182243.

For a Microsoft Excel 97 and earlier versions of Excel version of this article, see 172320.

SYMPTOMS

When you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that attempts to set or get the page setup properties for any sheet in a workbook in Microsoft Excel, you may receive either of the following error messages:

Run-time error '1004': Unable to set the x property of the PageSetup class

Run-time error '1004': Unable to get the x property of the PageSetup class

Note In these messages, x is any of the following words:

   BlackAndWhite        Order
   BottomMargin         Orientation
   CenterFooter         PaperSize
   CenterHeader         PrintArea
   CenterHorizontally   PrintComments
   CenterVertically     PrintGridlines
   ChartSize            PrintHeadings
   Draft                PrintNotes
   FirstPageNumber      PrintQuality
   FitToPagesTall       PrintTitleColumns
   FitToPagesWide       PrintTitleRows
   FooterMargin         RightFooter
   HeaderMargin         RightHeader
   LeftFooter           RightMargin
   LeftHeader           TopMargin
   LeftMargin           Zoom

CAUSE

This problem occurs when there are no printer drivers installed on your computer. Excel cannot set or get page setup properties if no printer drivers are installed.

RESOLUTION

To prevent this problem from occurring, install a printer driver on your computer. Use the Printers option in Control Panel to add and remove printer drivers.

MORE INFORMATION

In Excel, page setup properties are only available when you print or preview one or more sheets in a workbook. Because of this, you cannot change or return most page setup properties unless at least one printer driver is installed as the default printer.

If you click Page Setup on the File menu when no printer drivers are installed, you receive the following error message:

There are no printers installed. Use the Printers option in Control Panel to install a printer.

Just as you cannot access the Page Setup dialog box in this case, you cannot access the properties in the dialog box programmatically.

Note To open the Page Setup dialog box in Microsoft Office Excel 2007, press CTRL+F2, and then click Page Setup in the Print group.

Additional query words: prb XL2002 XL2003 XL2007

Keywords: kbexpertisebeginner kberrmsg kbprb kbprogramming KB291298

Microsoft KB Archive/291298

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