How to Send Printer Commands in Word
The "Print" field code command in Microsoft Word 2003 allows you to send data directly to the printer, bypassing Microsoft Word. This allows the data to flow straight from the document to your printer. To send printer commands from a Word document directly to a printer, follow the steps below.
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Instructions
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Start Microsoft Word 2003 and open an existing document or a blank document into which you want to insert a print field code.
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Click the place in the document where you would like to insert the print field code.
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Choose the "Insert" menu and click "Field" to open up a dialog box. The "Field" dialog box contains all the fields that can be inserted into a Word document, including the print field code.
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Use the "Categories" drop-down list at the top left of the dialog box to choose "All," if necessary. All of the fields will display in the "Field names" list below the "Categories" drop-down list.
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Scroll down the list and click "Print." The "Field Properties" will display on the right side of the dialog box.
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Type the data you want to send directly to the printer after "Print" in the "Field Codes" dialog box. Surround the data with quotation marks.
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Right-click the "OK" button to close the dialog box and insert the print field command into the Word document.
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palookajoe
Apr 23, 2010
The common command sent to my printer would be the "Esc" code that prefixes most commands. Normally, that is done using the "chr(27)" from a macro. Can you explain how I could do it THIS WAY, please? -
claudos
Oct 02, 2009
Can you please in the future provide examples and a little more clarity with your instructions. Novice users like myself are learning this step by step. It doesn't help when advice from computer experts are using terminology they would assume that everyone else would already understand only because they themselves think its easy to follow. Rather than taking short cuts, please take the time to test it out the steps also. In step 7, right clicking the OK button does not close the dialog box as we would expect following the instructions. We are left with no option but to click the OK button to close the dialog box. I do not know what to do from this point as there I am left with a blank page.
