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This question relates to printing setups in a report^s control file (dbf version).____I know that I can set ri_wptr to "default" if the report should go to the Windows default printer. I also know that I can set ri_wptr to "?" if I want to present the user with a printer selection menu.____But I don^t see how I can set the printer to be a specific printer while also giving the user the option to change to another printer.____This is a case where 95% of the time the running of this report will use a specific network printer, but there are times when the user wants to direct the output to a different printer than that specific network printer. Is there a way to do this?

If you use the ? prompt, the printer list will default to using the default printer.____Or you could add some front end code to manage the printer selection and then set the user^s selection in RI_WPTR outside of R&R.____Kathleen__R&R Support

Kathleen,____This sounds like an approach that will work. I had hoped that there would be a way to accomplish this all within R&R but didn^t see an obvious solution. Thank you for confirming this. I^ll try what you recommend.____Jeff