We have around 50 PCs and users. I have struggled with Office Customisation Tool to get it to help with Office 2007 Installs but it really saves no time. The most useful stuff for us is setting the default paper size to A4 but there seem to be no options for that. The user settings are the same as the ones available in the Admin templates for Group Policy so the only difference is whether its set a as an initial default or enforced. But neither seem to have any options for default paper size which I'm sure is the bain of all IT people's lives outside of North America.
Either I'm missing something or it's just not there. In that case, any ideas of how to script this?
Many thanks
PS. These are user settings so I can also apply to the user profile (we use roaming ones) and ideally to new default profiles. Not sure how to set a default roaming profile.
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No luck on that one. It seems to make no difference to paper size if I change the region. I tried changing to UK and otheres. Rebooted. Tried eveything. No change to paper size. Tried on a domain, on a stand alone PC, On a newly installed copy of office. No effect. I am usnign 2007 office and it seems to have no effect. I also tried with 2003 Excel but it doens't seem to work either.
Any other ideas?
OK. The key here is the Region and Language Options. You need to set regional options Formats to a region that that uses your paper size. For some absolutely mentally retarded reason, this is the only way to control the default paper size on HP printers. You can set the default paper size in the Printer Defaults but the HP short cuts over-ride these and revert it back.
Both in XP and Vista the solution is the same. BUT - you have to set the Region Formats BEFORE you install the printer drivers. Once the print drivers are installed, setting the region formats will not affect the default paper size. Again, the monkeys at HP assume that the Region is correct at the time of Installation and that it wont change. Why are large companies like HP so successful when they produce such moronic crap?
If the drivers are already installed, delete the printers, uninstall the drivers I even removed the Network ports. I then changed the Region and restarted. In Vista, you need to make sure you select the Administrative Tab in the Regional and Language options and copy to the Reserved Accounts (or it wont work) The reinstall the Printers and drivers. Hopefully, you will now have the correct default paper size that you want.
Im based in Hong Kong. So there is no local English option. Thus, by default, most PCs in HK use the United States English for the Region as United Kingdom give the wrong keyboard. The key here is to change your Regional Formats to say Australia (Singapore may do too) as you need A4 paper, $ for money and the UK date format. These give all of those. However, if you also want to default Office programs, namely Word and Outlook to use the UK English spelling for language, then set the Language option to UK English. Then add teh US Keyboard and (if you dont need pounds) delete the UK keyboard so you end up with United Kingdom English with US Keyboard. That will then work
Under the word options (excel could be the same) under the popular category there right at the bottom it asks you to choose the languar settings, if you click the botton it will let you choose between the languages that are installed on your machine (I assume as as i have uk and us english installed and they were under this option). I had to change this setting for the paper size to change to A4 from letter. Now every time i open word A4 is the default.
That is only for Office. And it sets the default paper size in Word/excel. It doesn't set the default paper size on the printers. You can manually set the paper size for the printers but you have to do it for each Printer Installation on each PC - or on the server if you are printer sharing (setting the Printer Device Settings and the Printer Defaults). But HP have these Printer Sets. The settings you make only apply to the default set. If a user selects another predefined printer set, everything then defaults back to US Letter and there is no way to stop this - except by following my guide above.
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by: cool_sathish_333Posted on 2009-06-18 at 08:34:19ID: 24658484
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